Musk Broadcast

Elon Musk has finally crossed the line from erratic billionaire to outright menace. Standing with Tommy Robinson’s mob, he told a British crowd “violence is coming, fight back or die.” That isn’t political speech, it’s reckless incitement. And spare me the idea that it’s all some cunning business strategy. If Musk cared about business he’d keep governments onside. What we see instead is a compulsive man - unfiltered - who gulps down half-truths from his inbox and spits them out unchecked, treating politics like a video game. That’s not strategy. That’s unmoored.

Yes, Musk is neurodiverse - he has said himself he’s on the autism spectrum. That may explain some of his bluntness, but it doesn’t excuse what he did. The law doesn’t give you a pass for incitement because you’re neurodiverse, and nor should it. At most it might be raised in mitigation, never as a defence. To pretend otherwise would be an insult to the millions of neurodiverse people who live responsibly every day. Musk’s compulsive style may help us understand him - it doesn’t absolve him.

And here’s the double problem with the rally. It’s true that not every person who turned up should be written off as far right. Some came out of grievance, some out of confusion, some out of anger at the state of things. But the moment you choose to march under the banner of the far right, you’ve made a choice that carries consequences. You can’t pretend afterwards that you were separate from them. Participation is complicity.

And then comes the hypocrisy. Britain has banned plenty of people for saying far less. Islamist preachers, American far-right activists, even conspiracy theorists have been slapped with exclusion orders and told they are not welcome here. Yet Musk tells a London crowd “fight back or die” and the government falls silent. If an imam had said it, the ban would have been instant. But when a tech billionaire does it, the self-styled defenders of “British values” suddenly lose their voices. That silence is complicity - and it stinks.