39 h. ago Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands | Jonathan Freedland

What one did to Twitter and Tesla, the other is doing to the United States of America. Their feud is revealing a fatal flaw in the Maga projectThe scriptwriters of Trump: the Soap Opera are slipping. The latest plot development – the epic falling-out between the title character and his best buddy, Elon Musk – was so predictable, and indeed predicted, that it counts as the opposite of a twist. Still, surprise can be overrated. Watching the two men – one the richest in the world, the other the most powerful – turn on each other in a series of ever-more venomous posts on their respective social media platforms has been entertainment of the highest order. X v Truth: it could be a Marvel blockbuster.But this is more than mere popcorn fodder. Even if they eventually patch things up, the rift between the president and Musk has exposed a divide inside the contemporary right, in the US and beyond – and a fatal flaw of the Trump project.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo you have an...

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56 h. ago Musk declares war on Trump as split over ‘big, beautiful’ bill gets personal

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s public brawl has implications for the ‘big, beautiful bill’ as it turns ugly, John Bowden writes

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57 h. ago Clash of the titans: Immovable object of Trump ego met unstoppable force of Musk arrogance in trolling for the ages

Never in history has the world seen behind the curtain at a feud between two such powerful men, only for them to be revealed as petty schoolchildren, writes Richard Hall.

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1 week ago How Wall Street offloaded $13bn of debt tied to Elon Musk’s Twitter deal

Donald Trump’s election helped revive loans that once threatened to hit banks with big losses

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1 week ago How Wall Street offloaded $13bn of debt tied to Musk’s Twitter deal

Trump’s election helped revive loans that once threatened to hit banks with big losses

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2 w. ago Amorous Or Loving? by Rupert Gavin: Who really invented Twitter? A) Jack Dorsey B) Jeff Bezoz C) Geoffrey Chaucer D) Elon Musk E) Mark Zuckerberg

A new book on the origins of some of our most evocative English words reveals the surprising answer...

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2 w. ago Twitter is down: Elon Musk's social platform X goes offline as thousands report problems

X, formerly known as Twitter, has gone down for millions of users around the world, with the website, app and XPro all affected.

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2 w. ago Twitter down as users of Elon Musk's X app report major issues

According to Downdetector, huge numbers of X/Twitter users are struggling to use the social media website this evening - while others are having issues with the app and login page

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