Monday Morning Moan - government by Monty Python isn’t going to bring Elon Musk to heel, however much we look on the bright side of life

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In Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Arthur King and his brave knights of Camelot clip clop around the countryside in search of adventure and daring do, failing on every occasion to rise to the moment and resorting to their well-worn battle-cry of, ‘Run away, run away!’.

I was minded of this philosophy when noting the bizarre move by British Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Nandy, who, for reasons best known to herself, suddenly took to X last week to announce that she was in fact sick and tired of X and wouldn’t be using the platform anymore and neither would the entire UK government department she heads up! So there, Musk, take that!!!

Nandy told her online followers, all 302.4K of them, that:

I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.

A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and mis-information over...

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