Amazon Prime is currently dominating adolescents’ screens with Beast Games, a glossy show where attention-seeking competitors bargain and tantrum, hoping to win a multimillion-dollar fortune and associated fame.

The games are played at the whim of internet megastar MrBeast, AKA 26-year-old multimillionaire Jimmy Donaldson, making any sort of strategy impossible. Losers fall from high pedestals into a vortex of oblivion.

So, to the inglorious fight for the approval of Elon Musk, X overlord and self-appointed saviour of Britain who on Monday suggested the UK should be “liberated”, apparently from its democratically elected government.

It was obvious from the get-go there could be no winners from cosying up to Donald Trump’s BFF (for now). For in Musk Games, up to $100m was being dangled as the prize for Reform UK if Nigel Farage could walk the tightrope between endorsing jailed far-right thug Tommy Robinson’s take on the child grooming scandal, maintaining Musk’s respect and saying what’s acceptable in the UK.

Musk’s pursuit of free speech at all costs has included calls to release Robinson, who was jailed in October after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee. His charge sheet, however, stretches much further back.

After a BBC interview on Sunday in which Farage refused to endorse Musk’s views on Robinson, the Reform leader was dropped into the vortex with Gamemaster Musk, who

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