67 minutes ago Elon Musk's British family tree revealed: The world's richest man has a long line of British relatives... no wonder he's so obsessed with us!

EXCLUSIVE: The world's richest man has a handful of cousins living mainly in the north of England while another branch of the family settled in rural Gloucestershire.

Politics

80 minutes ago Tonight's rugby news as new Wales international signing to make debut and England star denies cheating

The latest rugby news stories from Wales and beyond

Society

8 hours ago Elon Musk 'world's best hope' for £18trn mega tunnel connecting London and New York

Elon Musk 'world's best hope' for £18trn mega tunnel connecting London and New York  Express

Economics

5 hours ago Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform’s relationship with the tech billionaire

These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...

Science

4 hours ago Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform leader’s relationship with the tech billionaire

These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...

Politics

4 hours ago Spending less time on X (Twitter) has 'vastly improved my mental health', says Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

The Cabinet minister said that reducing her time on Twitter meant she also better understood ‘what really matters to the country’

Society

18 hours ago Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE wont find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget

Musk has been claiming he could make $2 trillion in cuts since October

Economics

4 hours ago UK officials 'monitoring' Elon Musk's social media as 'possible security risk'

Entrepreneur’s social media posts are being tracked by Government officials, according to reports

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7 hours ago Reform MPs including Nigel Farage paid thousands by Elon Musk’s X for posting on site

The scheme has been branded an ‘unholy alliance’ between the right-wing and billionaire Musk

Politics

18 hours ago Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE won’t find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget

Musk has been claiming he could make $2 trillion in cuts since October

Economics

8 hours ago Winston Churchill’s grandson hits out at Elon Musk over Jess Phillips comments

Labour safeguarding minister was described as ‘a rape genocide apologist’ by the tycoon and Donald Trump ally

Events

15 hours ago JAN MOIR: God knows why Elon Musk bothers with our grubby politics but I, for one, am grateful that he does...

What with everything going down in America, God knows why Elon Musk bothers to concern himself with grubby British politics on this grim husk of an island.

Politics

24 hours ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Have I got a deal for you, Donald... forget Greenland and buy Britain instead!

Donald Trump says he wants to buy Greenland. Elon Musk wants to buy Liverpool FC, according to his dad. But why stop there, chaps? Have I got a deal for you.

Economics

19 hours ago BBC The Traitors fans blown away as star uncovers dramatic 'power play move'

Fans of the The Traitors have taken to social media to share their reactions after one star revealed a huge bombshell about their career away from the show

Events

15 hours ago Elon Musk is pushing to get rid of Keir Starmer before Britain's next general election as 'he believes Western civilisation is threatened', sources close to billionaire say

The tech mogul is said to be weighing up with his allies on how the Labour government can be destabilised by the next general election .

Politics

26 hours ago The £3 B&M organisation buy shoppers say have helped them 'sort their lives out like Stacey Solomon'

A B&M storage hack is going viral, with UK shoppers raving about the budget-friendly store's affordable containers.

Economics

22 hours ago Elon Musk 'going mad' biographer says as she warns billionaire is 'deeply unwell'

Elon Musk's biographer Seth Abramson has claimed the billionaire is "going mad" whilst managing Tesla, X, and SpaceX, and also being part of Donald Trump's transition team.

Events

24 hours ago Bond villain Elon Musk's influence seeps into Scottish Parliament and its 'populism' war

In the first Holyrood scrap of 2025, John Swinney and Russell Findlay clashed in a fiery FMQs inspired by Elon Musk.

Politics

29 hours ago Meloni says Italy is exploring deals on telecoms security, but denies private talks with Musk

Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government is in talks with private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk

Economics

23 hours ago Rayner: I’d meet with Musk to challenge him on factually incorrect attacks

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested the billionaire should be ‘correcting the record as soon as possible’ over information shared on his X platform.

Events

27 hours ago Trump’s rhetoric and unpredictability can be ‘destabilsing’ says Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested Donald Trump’s unpredictability was ‘one of his signatures’.

Politics

23 hours ago Musk trying to ‘inflame racial tensions’ with post on boy’s murder – Yousaf

Kriss Donald was abducted and killed in a racist attack by an Asian gang in 2004.

Events

29 hours ago Liverpool told why Elon Musk would be exactly like Man United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

After the father of Elon Musk revealed his son would relish the chance to buy Liverpool, the Anfield fan base were given a huge warning that he could be like Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Politics

24 hours ago Fact check: How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs?

Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.

Events

31 hours ago Elon Musk's relationship with dad Errol after Tesla boss didn't see him for 7 years

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has a very estranged relationship with his father, Errol Musk, as the two reportedly did not speak for many years –but just how bad is it?

Politics

25 hours ago MP says she received rape threats and describes herself as ‘survivor of abuse’

Sorcha Eastwood said a member of the public ‘came up and said they wanted to rape me’.

Events

32 hours ago Elon Musk holds 'discussions' with allies on how to remove Sir Keir Starmer as PM

Sources claim Elon Musk is planning to take his interference into UK politics a step further as he supposedly concocts a plan to bring Keir Starmer down before the next general election

Politics

26 hours ago ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary lifeFilippo Tommaso Marinetti was the Elon Musk of the early 20th century, combining a joy in technological innovation with an appetite for illiberal politics. Where Musk builds rockets, Marinetti celebrated those shiny new inventions, the aeroplane and the motor car. The Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote when the movement existed only in his head, begins with a rhapsodic account of a fast drive that ends in a crash, which delights him more than the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the famous Greek sculpture in the Louvre. Machines, he believes, make all previous art irrelevant. Futurism will hymn the hard new beauty.Marinetti’s role in the making of the modern world is insufficiently recognised, presumably because he was so contentious and offensi...

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35 hours ago Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him | Martin Kettle

The democratic order has faced down tyrants and megalomaniacs before. The name of the game for liberals for 2025 and beyond must be survivalThey can smell the fear. And they are thrilled by what they can smell. Fanned by a mesmerised media at home and abroad, the thrill excites them into fresh provocations. Donald Trump knows the US’s allies’ nerves are jangling as his second presidency approaches – and he wants to keep it that way. Elon Musk is similarly glorying in his power to provoke and misinform without suffering penalty or reprimand – least of all from most of Britain’s politicians and press.Both men are bullies. And this is what bullies do. However, there is no disputing that this is also their moment. The Trump inauguration on 20 January will be an in-your-face celebration of America First power. It will also be a requiem that consigns large parts of the rules-based postwar global settlement to the grave.Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Politics

27 hours ago Smiling fraudster who helped scam woman out of £70,000 after she clicked on fake Post Office message avoids prison

Dan Gheorghe, 23, was involved in a money laundering group that left a woman devastated after they tricked her into transferring her 'nest egg' savings into another bank account.

Events

29 hours ago Winston Churchill’s grandson warns Elon Musk to ‘come through me first’ in staunch defence of Jess Phillips

Labour safeguarding minister was described as ‘a rape genocide apologist’ by the tycoon and Donald Trump ally

Events

29 hours ago Elon Musk's influence on grooming gangs debate shows what chaos a hostile foreign state could cause, Government watchdog says

Jonathan Hall, the independent review of state threats legislation, said Mr Musk's recent actions presented a 'canary in the coalmine moment' for the UK.

Events

36 hours ago Jess Phillips faced ‘deluge of hate’ after Elon Musk grooming gangs comments

Mr Musk’s comments followed Labour’s decision to decline a Whitehall-led inquiry into child sexual abuse.

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