Ding, ding, ding! It’s another round in the endless online wars involving the erratic owner of Twitter/X. Fresh from his spat with Keir Starmer, Elon Musk has now turned his guns on Humza Yousaf – the flailing former First Minister of Scotland. Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Thursday, Yousaf described Musk as ‘one of the most dangerous men on the planet’ because of his ‘amplification’ of disinformation.

Musk then responded the following day, claiming on Friday that Yousaf, the Scottish-born son of first generation Pakistani immigrants, ‘loathes white people’. ‘He is super, super racist’, he said in reply to a speech Yousaf made in 2020 about structural racism in Scotland. ‘Scotland gave him everything and yet he loathes white people.’

The claim enraged Yousaf who is, according to the Sunday Mail, now ‘considering all options’, including legal action against the billionaire. His lawyer Aamer Anwar told that paper that ‘Elon Musk has effectively painted a target on Humza Yousaf’s back with his completely unacceptable, untrue and inflammatory comments.’ And now Musk has responded to Yousaf yet again, writing on Twitter/X that:

He’s obviously super racist against white people. I dare that scumbag to sue me. Go ahead, make my day… Legal discovery will show that however big a racist he’s been in public communications, he is vastly worse in private communications.

Musk v Yousaf – talk about the trial of the decade…