Terry Prone: From Kanye West to Elon Musk, wealthy exploiters kept on getting their own way

Taylor Swift, among many others, could tell us a thing or two about the privileged rich men we keep letting off the hook

Going back decades, Kanye West was showing clear signs of a skew from the norm. And we just looked on as he kept going deeper and deeper into his own peculiar world. Picture: Ashley Landis/AP

The thing about live TV is that you can be so focused on getting dug out of one participant on one issue that another comment sails past you, parting your hair like a bullet but leaving no blood.

This week, I was getting dug out of the likeable Peadar Tóibín about one thing when someone — I can’t remember who — muttered that criticisms of Elon Musk didn’t take into account that he’d made a lot of money. Not stupid, you know, was the subtext.