LAST week saw two events which revealed the sort of new politics that surround us. At one, the UK Prime Minister interviewed Elon Musk like a…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shakes hands with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after an in-conversation event
That the richest man in the world is powerful is not a revelation, but the extent and depth of power wielded by a tech giant in the modern age is astonishing and terrifying. Why would they do if, for example, our PM is literally married to such power and data-controlling entities? “Alongside the anti-establishment rhetoric and clumsy lurches to the left have come lunges to the right – or the far right – the endless culture wars against minorities, the authoritarian approach to protest and parliament, and the attacks on any institution that frustrates thethey in large part created – and that dislike, together with their deepening unpopularity, has carried the party into a strange place. Ideas previously considered heretical or too extreme are winning converts there.
But as Dominic Cummings enjoyed another 15 minutes of fame spewing expletives like a jilted Malcolm Tucker, we see the landscape being sculpted by the likes of Thiel and Musk.
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