Elon the Musk. What a strange man, but I’m guessing you could say that about anyone from the extreme right. Go on, choose some of the usual suspects. How about this lot: Hitler, Mosley, Webster, Franco, Hoover, Bannon, Yaxley-Lennon, Farage, Trump - you have to admit there’s not a lot of ‘normal’ amongst this fairly broad selection. Lacking moral fibre, dissembling, lying, conniving, egotistical, murderous, you wouldn’t want any of them within twenty metres of a school, hospital, government building or playground. However, rather than via the cut and thrust of local and national politics, Elon the Musk seems to have discovered his right-wing chops through his association with Trump, although Grimes, his ex-wife, was partial to saying stuff like, “I’m called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture”. I guess on that basis he was a ‘white is right’ man for longer than assumed. Maybe the politics of big business ruined him. First Fountainhead then the first million, then sackings, then thinking that workers or those poorer than oneself should be made to work for a pittance, or, even better, nothing. Then there’s that terrible, but very common affliction: businessmen’s small cock syndrome, which seems to lead these bros to fast cars, fast drugs, then to models and pop-stars in a desperate desire for the reflected cool to rub away some sharp corners of the square they will always be. But sanded square or not, Elon is never satisfied. Is that all there is? How to burnish his brand? Electric cars, mansions, girlfriends, Elon the little boy playing with his toys. But what do big boys play with? Twitter/Twatter/X/Y? Boring. Social Media commandant and free speech advocate not enough for a man of Musk’s warped vision of himself. Elon the politician? Now you’re talking. How? By cosying up to one of the most toxic men on the planet outside of The Kremlin. Trump wants Musk’s money. Musk wants Trump’s power. Symbiosis. Maybe he can be kingmaker. Intervene in elections home and abroad. Open the right-wing playbook/Pandora’s box and scatter the hate and lies where he likes. Develop a new frontier of right-wing nationalism, fake news and business opportunity. Greenland and Britain, the new staging posts for Trump and Musk’s invasion of Europe. Musk softening up new territories with his vast vats of cash and a trillion untruths courtesy of whatever he’s calling X this week. Of course, this will never be enough based on what we know already. Space beckons as does the rest of our solar system. The planets now the next challenge for Musk the spaceman. To go where no man has gone before. His new and massive rockets (see that syndrome I mentioned earlier in the piece) carrying passengers, soldiers, politicians and businessmen, the new conquistadors. Colonise Jupiter. Colonise Mars. Colonise Venus. Colonise Mercury. Fly too close to the sun and come crashing down to earth.