Elon Musk is the world’s richest man – with a penchant for politics. The 54-year-old is estimated to have a net worth of $852bn and is closing in (he hopes) on becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

But it is his full-throated embrace of right-wing politics that has brought him more attention lately than any of his businesses such as Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter).

While politicians like Donald Trump have a shelf life mandated by political norms, no such constraints apply to Musk, which makes the question of his future plans so pressing for, whether it likes it or not, the entire world.

So, what will Elon Musk do next? Chris Stokel-Walker, a technology journalist, James Ball, the political editor of The New World, and Zing Tsjeng, a freelance writer and broadcaster, offer their perspectives.

Elon Musk is not British. He has never lived in the UK for any extended period of time. None of his companies are headquartered here.

And yet, the world’s richest man has repeatedly seemed to have an interest in the UK that borders at times on the obsessive – though he rarely has anything nice to say about the country.

He has described the UK as a “tyrannical police state” in which........

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