Humza Yousaf responds to Elon Musk’s ‘blatant racist’ jibe after speech

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October 27, 2023

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Humza Yousaf has hit back at Elon Musk after he appeared to describe Scotland’s First Minister as a “blatant racist” on social media.

Musk, who took over Twitter last year before rebranding it as X, responded to an account which posted a speech Mr Yousaf made in the Scottish Parliament after the murder of George Floyd in the US.

In response to the post by an account named “End Wokeness”, Musk wrote: “What a blatant racist!”

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As of Friday morning, the post had been seen by more than 500,000 accounts.

In the speech in 2020, Mr Yousaf recited the final words of Mr Floyd before his death while he was restrained by police officer Derek Chauvin.

Mr Yousaf, who was justice secretary at the time, went on to highlight that the people he dealt with on a daily basis in his portfolio were all white.

Reciting the names of the heads of the legal profession, the courts and the police in Scotland at the time, Mr Yousaf punctuated them with the word “white”, before moving on to the medical profession, trade unions and directors general of the Scottish government.

He concluded by saying: “That is not good enough.”

A spokesperson for the first minister said he had been on the “receiving end of racist hate, abuse and death threats his entire life” as he called on Musk to do more to protect users on the platform.

Mr Yousaf also uploaded a Gif of Still Game character Navid dancing on X this morning, alongside the comment: “Racists foaming at the mouth at my very existence.”

“Sadly, much of the racist abuse and threats of violence the first minister faces are directed his way on X – formerly known as Twitter,” the spokesperson said.

“Mr Musk should use his position to tackle racism and hatred that goes unchecked on the social media platform he owns.”

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Roman Storm’s lawyers signal continuance if court allows hacker’s testimony

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July 10, 2025

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Roman Storm’s lawyers signal continuance if court allows hacker’s testimony

The Tornado Cash co-founder is scheduled to go to trial on Monday, but his defense attorneys are still waiting on rulings for motions over witnesses in the case.

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Migrants deal a win for Starmer – and could help with fight against Reform

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July 10, 2025

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Migrants deal a win for Starmer - and could help with fight against Reform

The bromance between Sir Keir Starmer and President Macron is so apparent – embraces all around.

This is some deft diplomacy from Sir Keir, who has been love-bombing his French counterpart ever since he became prime minister – trying to get closer ties, be it on security, on trade, and now of course on small boats.

And he has got a win today – he’s got President Macron to agree a deterrent deal.

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You remember the Conservatives were trying the Rwanda plan to deter people from coming by sending them back to Rwanda, a third country, if they came here illegally.

What the prime minister has agreed with President Macron today is a big deal. It’s a one in, one out deal.

What they’re going to do is, if someone arrives here illegally, they will be sent back to France, and in return, the UK will accept a legitimate asylum seeker. It might be someone who has family ties.

It’s going to start off really small – think of it as a pilot – as they’re going to test it out, see if it works.

It might be just a handful of people being sent back, maybe just under a thousand or so by the end of the year. But they will hopefully, for the prime minister, scale it up and it could become a real deterrent.

I’ll leave you with just one more thought: As Prime Minister Starmer and President Macron were doing this deal today, Nigel Farage was in the English Channel documenting illegal migrants making that crossing – 79 people being picked up by Border Force, taken off a dinghy and into Dover.

Polling out this morning by Portland suggests four in 10 voters who are planning on going to Reform would go back to Labour if the prime minister tackles small boats and drives down the crossings.

There is a real political imperative for him to try to start to resolve this problem. It’s going to count at the ballot box – immigration is a top-three issue in this country when it comes to voters.