Elon Musk

Labour’s war with Elon Musk

16 November 2024 9:00 am

Why is Elon Musk obsessed with Diablo IV?

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Grade: A- I usually try to write about new games, but indulge me in addressing Blizzard’s open-world dungeon crawler Diablo…

The rise of anti-Elonism

19 October 2024 9:00 am

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to…

Life among the world’s biggest risk-takers

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The billionaires currently driving technology and the global economy are willing to take bets on very long odds, and treat everything as a market to be played

Xi speech warrior: Elon Musk’s love affair with China

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Elon Musk revels in the role of ‘free speech absolutist’. Last week, for instance, he jumped to the defence of…

Sharing riot videos? You’re part of the problem

10 August 2024 9:00 am

We’re told these riots are about immigration, racism, angry Islam, elite blindness and identity politics – and, to a point,…

Free speech stops riots

10 August 2024 9:00 am

With depressing predictability, the riots have led to calls for more censorship. Historically, it was the authoritarian right who blamed…

Britain needs to join the new space race

10 August 2024 9:00 am

Elon Musk’s Starship is the biggest rocket ever built. Sending it into space is hard; bringing it back to Earth,…

How Elon Musk could solve the housing crisis

6 July 2024 9:00 am

People sometimes ask me why I don’t go into politics. Why on earth would I do that? No, if you…

What would life on Mars actually look like?

2 December 2023 9:00 am

It would need more than 100 million people to make it viable for a start – living in airlocked, subterranean bases, producing food and oxygen in artificially-lit greenhouses

The FBI has a problem with Catholics

19 August 2023 9:00 am

  On board Aello She was built in 1921, a beautiful wooden ketch that is as graceful to look at…

The end of the Silicon Valley dream

4 June 2023 5:00 pm

It is difficult, given what Silicon Valley has become, to convey exactly what it was like in the 1970s and…

Elon Musk is right about BBC funding

11 April 2023 1:53 am

The BBC has today been using its various news platforms to protest against being described as ‘government funded’ by Twitter.…

What Elon Musk doesn't get about peace

8 October 2022 2:58 am

The power one person can hold should never be underestimated. They can take people’s lives, as Vladimir Putin does, or…

How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead

16 July 2022 9:00 am

How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead

Why are progressives scared of Elon Musk?

12 May 2022 1:14 am

Billionaire edgelord Elon Musk has just given progressives another reason to dread his ongoing attempt to buy Twitter. The founder…

The fight is on to censor Elon Musk’s Twitter

6 May 2022 2:58 am

If Elon Musk truly intends to make Twitter a free-speech platform, he’s clearly got a fight on his hands. That…

How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor

30 April 2022 9:00 am

How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor

Can Elon Musk take on the tech censors?

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Is Elon Musk a match for the tech censors?

Why Brussels fears Elon Musk

27 April 2022 8:55 pm

Thierry Breton, the European Commission for the internal market, lost no time in rattling his sabre at Twitter as soon…

Why Elon Musk should forget Twitter and stick to Tesla

23 April 2022 9:00 am

I spent Easter agonising over whether to throw the considerable weight of this column behind Elon Musk’s maverick $43 billion…

The age-old story of strongmen

16 April 2022 9:00 am

The only good news, after the massacres in Ukraine, is that so many ugly behemoth super-yachts have been seized and…