Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
ByElon Musk
Elon Musk is a businessman, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of Twitter, and has been estimated to be the world’s richest man. He was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and after studying at University of Pennsylvania embarked on a career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Zip2, a software company that was bought for $300m in 1999.
Inside Trump’s Oval Office
Also this week: The secrets of the president’s success, and a reliable diplomatic asset: my loyal Ambassa-Dog.
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Laughing at the populist right is not a political strategy
The civil wars within Maga and Reform UK only show how dangerous they are.
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Los Angeles, Donald Trump and the moronic inferno
With Elon Musk exiled from government, the president is free to enact the wildest fever dreams of the American public.
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Elon Musk’s surreal war on Donald Trump will fail
The Maga movement does not forgive heresy.
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Good riddance to Elon Musk
The Tesla chief’s Doge was the worst of all worlds.
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The resurrections of Piers Morgan
Also this week: a brand-new Observer, and an expensive year for the world’s richest man.
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Elon Musk’s Wisconsin mission explodes
Voters have rejected a key Republican candidate, despite the Tesla chief pouring millions into the election.
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Christine Rosen: “If you give people an easy path, they will take it”
The American academic on how tech is changing our capacity for experience.
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My weak bladder gives me an insight into the White House
Perhaps I have more in common with Donald Trump and Elon Musk than I thought.
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JD Vance’s “free speech” hypocrisy
Also this week: a proliferation of new London media outlets, and another baby for Elon Musk.
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The liberal resistance to Trump is already dead
In 2017, the left raged and organised – and lost. And there’s no room for losers in the new America.
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The British media goes bendy bananas over Europe (again)
Also this week: Trump’s Pentagon press purge and a new mission for Toby Jones.
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The plot to asset-strip American government
Even the radical architects of Project 2025 didn’t propose what Elon Musk is doing to US democracy.
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Sara Sharif and the case for transparency
Also this week: Lisa Nandy gets entangled in the Telegraph’s web, and why Brits are abandoning Tesla.
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Trump’s America is a gangster’s paradise
He has stripped the country naked and revealed the ugly secret beneath our idealism: money and corruption.
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Can the United States resist fascism?
Whether Elon Musk’s salute was intended or not, America is too big for authoritarianism to take hold.
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Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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Trump’s bluster conceals an old conservative script: cut taxes, slash the state
Far from being “populist”, the Republican Party is on the cusp of finally attaining its heart’s desire since the New…
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Elon Musk’s hostile takeover
Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power.
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