KEVIN MCCALLUM: London Marathon joins exit of X-pats
Organisers take a stand against mister take-a-chance Elon Musk, accused of converting X into a hate machine
25 April 2025 - 05:00
On the day SA’s minister of finance was VAT shamed into looking for other ways to fill the country’s dwindling coffers, the London Marathon told Elon Musk, the US’s mister take-a-chance, that they would no longer stand for the fat shaming that is hosted on his social media site.
The London Marathon will no longer post on X, the cesspit formerly known as Twitter, because of the abuse and vitriol on Musk’s $44bn folly, particularly the “body shaming that has been directed at the Scottish distance runner Eilish McColgan in recent months”, according to race director Hugh Brasher...
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