Elon Musk thinks the UK is in the middle of a civil war. Ha!

I don't know whether Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, knows anything about civil wars. But as an American across the other side of the Atlantic, newspaper headlines over here about riots in UK towns and cities by a bunch of right-wing racist thugs appear to have convinced him that this whole country is in violent uproar. Ninety-eight per cent of the people of this island are living peaceful lives, struggling a bit like most families around the world, but generally speaking calm and busy with their lives. These bunch of hoodlums are cauuing mayhem in a few places at night because they are angry, hate immigrants, especially Muslim ones, and have nothing better to do with their lives but attack the police, loot shops and shout abuse. They are a tiny minority and althoughb it's very unpleasant for the police and for Muslims inside mosques and shopkeepers who have broken front windows, most of the country is unaffected. Civil war? Absolutely not. It dramatises what is just thuggery and mindless stupid anger from people who are extremists and are not supported by any of the vast majority of nice, friendly, non-racist people who live in this amazing country. We certainly don't need people like Elon Musk pontificating from across the water and putting labels on what will soon, I hope, calm down, once several hundred of the thugs have been put into prison where they belong.