The Labour-led Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee said yesterday it will summon Elon Musk to testify about X‘s role during the Summer riots – with the first hearings in its inquiry set for the new year. Chairman Chi Onwurah said she “would certainly like the opportunity to cross-examine him to see … how he reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation.” Even Emily Maitlis had to point out to her that Musk wouldn’t exactly be “quaking in his boots”…
Musk’s response was no less forthright than usual: “They will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.” There goes Mandelson’s attempt to convince Labour to keep things civil – which incidentally its MPs immediately attacked…
Elon is tweeting this morning that “the establishment political parties are going to get utterly crushed in the next UK election” and for him to be more popular than Starmer is a low bar. Meanwhile Eric Trump told GB News last night that politicians attacking the President for “a couple of additional clicks on Twitter or Facebook” are “counterproductive to their own societies and trade relations.” More on Labour’s skilfull diplomacy as Guido gets it…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”