Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation

Experts suspect X owner's interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law

For those wondering why Elon Musk, the tycoon newly infamous for his stiff-arm salutes, developed a sudden ferocious interest in the UK this month, the answer may lie in an arcane piece of online media legislation working its way gradually towards fruition.

In a ferocious flurry of tweets of his X platform this month, days before formally joining the Trump administration, the world's richest man portrayed Britain as a dystopian police state" run by a tyrannical government" in which young working-class women are routinely kidnapped off the streets by gangs of immigrants.