The press’s determination not to call Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes Nazi salutes is quite something. The Telegraph used the phrase “a hand gesture that some critics have likened to a fascist salute”; The Daily Mail “an ‘awkward hand gesture’ that some have likened to a Nazi salute”; The Times said that “commenters on social media suggested it looked like a fascist salute” and The Sun said that “some said he had made a stiff-armed Roman-style salute”.

If you’re wondering why it’s so hard for newspapers to accurately report something for which there is photographic and video evidence, and which millions of people saw clearly with their own eyes, a big part of it is money: under UK libel laws, someone with Musk’s money can financially ruin any media organisation that he decides to target. It doesn’t matter if what they report is true; what matters is that he has the resources to ruin them.