News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
In this week's London Calling, the topics are the weird karaoke cult among Tory politicians and their staff, the terrible timing of the Just Stop Oil protestors and Elon Musk's welcome bid to take over Twitter.
Elon Musk – a prominent lockdown sceptic and free speech proponent – has bought a 9.2% stake in social media platform Twitter worth nearly $3 billion U.S. dollars.
Elon Musk deserves to be Time Magazine's Person of the Year (for reasons other than being the founder of SpaceX). He is a devout lockdown sceptic – a lonely position to take for a billionaire.
In this week's London Calling the topics are the death of Sir David Amess, Elon Musk eclipsing Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world (a victory for lockdown sceptics) and James's hunting trip with Laurence Fox.
Steely-eyed lockdown sceptic Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has soared past Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $230 billion – nearly twice as much as Bill Gates.
Elon Musk is moving Tesla's headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas after criticising lockdown measures by local leaders as “fascist”. Musk is a steely-eyed lockdown sceptic.
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