Elon Musk lashed out after hearing he isn’t invited to the government’s tech conference (Picture: Frederic J. BROWN and Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty)
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He says he wouldn’t want to come here anyway and nor should anyone else…
Elon Musk finds himself snubbed from the government’s forthcoming big tech International Investment Summit, purportedly because of his injudicious remarks about this summer’s riots in Southport and across the UK.
He responded by saying he wouldn’t want to come here anyway because Britain is ‘releasing paedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts’, in reference to the early release scheme to combat prison overcrowding.
Although Musk did not attend last year’s event in person, he got to steal the front pages with his face-to-face interview with the then prime minister, Rishi Sunak, in a discussion on AI.
So this year’s snub might hurt Musk’s pride. But there is a second possibility why Musk finds himself a pariah here, other than his X/Twitter posts.
After his ‘moral’ refusal to allow Ukraine to use his Starlink satellite system as a GPS for their missiles, it has been reported that Starlink has now been found being used by Russia in its Iranian-built Shahed drones.
Is Musk ploughing the field for Donald Trump, who has frequently signalled his admiration of Russia’s leader?
Or is he just a rich, morally confused hypocrite? Peter, London
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Send MPs on an army course and we’ll see about that pay rise
The job of a senior officer is much more stressful than being an MP says one reader (Picture: Ian Davidson/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Sharon (MetroTalk, Thu) says MPs deserve a rise in their basic salary from around £90,000 to £250,000, otherwise the best candidates will continue to work for the more handsomely rewarded private sector.
That is debatable. Take a senior Army officer. A brigadier commands five battalions of more than 2,500 troops on an average salary of about £115,000.
Sharon talks about stress. The brigadier has to ensure his brigade is battle-ready at any given time. If deployed to active service, stress becomes a major part of his lifestyle. He deserves his salary.
The soldier under his command receives a starting salary of about £25,000 and is subjected to stress during training and in active service.
Most CEOs of successful businesses have worked from the ground up and, like military personnel, apply such attributes as communication, management, organisational and decision-making skills.
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