Colin Sheridan: Donald Trump’s ego our only hope that Musk won't do more damage

Since dumping at least $250m into Donald Trump’s campaign, Musk has become arm candy for the president-elect, who is set to be inaugurated next week, writes Colin Sheridan

Elon Musk, born and raised in South Africa, a man who has never lived or paid taxes in England, has intentionally set out to undermine and effectively overthrow Kier Starmer's Labour government by stirring up one of the most emotive hornet nests imaginable, one that is mired in child-protection issues, government and police failures, and the one thing that unites all far-right thinkers, Islamophobia. File photo

Remember those movies from a different time when a dispatch rider would arrive in an outpost town, his horse limp from exhaustion, the messenger parched, half passed out in the saddle? 

A concerned local would catch him as he collapsed off the horse's back. Water would be fetched for both, before some parchment would be unravelled and read aloud to the expectant townspeople.