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Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with what’s going on in Britain? The billionaire owner of Tesla and X has been busy posting on his social media platform about the murder of Henry Nowak and what it says about the state of British policing. What does Musk actually know about policing in this country?

What the tech mogul definitely does know about is how to stir the pot. According to a report in the Financial Times, Musk has written more than 110 posts, retweets and replies about British politics since last Wednesday on X. This is almost three times the share devoted to his company Space X, which is valued at $1.8 trillion (£1.3 trillion) ahead of its highly anticipated IPO next week.Musk is all fired up about the murder of 18-year-old Henry, which has led to accusations of ‘two-tier policing’ after it emerged police had arrested him for alleged racial abuse as he lay dying. There were violent clashes with police in Southampton this week near to where he was killed by Vickrum Digwa, who was given a life sentence on Monday. Musk criticised how ‘heinously’ Nowak was treated by the police in a series of posts:

Musk claims to care about the Henry Nowaks of this world but he really doesn’t