Politics

Boris Johnson shoehorned Brexit into his Musk-Zuckerberg cage fight article – or vice versa

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 14th, 2023

If you’re on social media, you can’t have missed the news that billionaires Elon musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning a cage fight, with proceeds going to charity.

It’s been about seven weeks since the pair agreed in principle, but we’re no closer to having any actual details – despite a brief flirtation with the possibility that the fight would take place in The Colosseum in Rome.

Despite the inertia, people are still talking – and joking – about the proposed bout.

It has taken so long to make the arrangements that the Meta boss has lost faith.

News of the (possibly) impending event has even filtered through to Boris Johnson, who was in search of a barrel to scrape for his latest Daily Mail column.

Here he is, promoting the piece.

We read it so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.

It forces a link between Brexit and the two Americans’ willingness to do something outrageous, despite disapproval.

As a metaphor for the UK leaving the EU it’s not a bad one.

It’s driven by the whims of the very rich.

It’s likely to cost more than it makes.

There’s a one hundred per cent chance of pain.

Oh, and this is how the column ends …

‘By the way, if the Musk-­Zuckerberg bout does go ahead, I challenge the winner to a ­Cumberland wrestling pankration*. And as prize money I propose that the victor should receive half the other’s annual income.

Dictionary Corner

Pankration: An ancient Greek sport combining boxing and wrestling introduced in 648BC.’

That’s their ‘dictionary corner’, not ours. It’s their new thing.

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