Musk needs a new CEO? Here are some ideas

ELON Musk has said he will resign as Twitter CEO ‘as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!’ Well, here I am!

I have never been hesitant to try something new and am always willing to give my opinion on most topics even when some people might not want to hear them. I am not going to be silly enough to ask people whether they want me in the job and then accept that, so I will be able to fill the position into the distant future.

I would come into the position with no biases and would welcome suggestions on how to manage Twitter as I don’t actually use it, so I might need some professional development. Although I am a defender of free speech, I would have no problem banning Trump from the platform.

I await your employment offer with anticipation. DENNIS FITZGERALD,

Melbourne, Australia. ... IF Elon Musk wants to pick a sure-fire loser to run Twitter, he needs do no more than stick a pin in any of the world’s rich lists.

I reckon even he is capable of doing that, but I could be wrong, and he might just end up sticking it into himself, again.

LIAM POWER, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

Magic of Christmas

IT’S very exciting – there is a feeling of hope and joy in the air. Can you feel it?

The usual pre-Christmas atmosphere of over-full shops and tense shoppers is still there, but this is something special.

It’s a magical feeling that is encouraging people to smile and talk to strangers, to enjoy communicating with others again.

It’s a deeply felt recognition that we need human connection. That we want to get on with others, not take sides. That we want to feel happy, not depressed and angry. That we want to be positive, not negative. And we can, and will, bring light into the world and banish the darkness. I feel the magic all around me and hope it will benefit you, too, in the coming year and beyond.

SHEILA ATTWATER, by email.

Clarkson’s blunder

BROADCASTER Jeremy Clarkson’s recent vile attack on Meghan Markle in his newspaper column was unacceptable and egregious.

One positive note that has emerged from this omnishambles is that Clarkson has at least rowed back on the comments he made by stating that he is ‘horrified to have caused so much hurt’.

Even though Clarkson wrote this article, someone above him would have had to have given their imprimatur for it to be published.

I find it all rather mystifying and inexplicable how this article ever saw the light of day.

Some people will no doubt say that this is quintessentially Jeremy Clarkson and that he should not be taken seriously,

However, it seems the UK’s Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) received more than 12,000 complaints over this article, suggesting the public were not best pleased with it.

It’s good to express one’s opinions but the art of expressing same can be difficult.

After all, one wrong word could bring disgrace and with it an ending of one’s blissful peace.

Words categorically and unequivocally have consequences and the collateral damage of such rancorous and acrimonious words from Clarkson has a deleterious impact on many people.

Clarkson is in such a powerful role, and considering that there is an expediting scourge of violence against women, girls and men, he certainly could have done much better than stooping so low in writing this appalling article.

JOHN O’BRIEN, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Brilliant final

ALL the virtue-signalling soccer fans writing in newspapers who refused to watch the World Cup final missed a magnificent occasion. I think they’ll enjoy the subsequent repeats on TV once they convince themselves it’s not the same as seeing it as it happened.

If they still refuse then perhaps they’re not real lovers of the game, after all.

ROBERT SULLIVAN, Bantry, Co. Cork.