Deepening feud time.

Elon Musk’s claim that race riots in the U.K. are “inevitable” is “pretty deplorable,” a government minister said Tuesday, amid a deepening feud between the U.K. administration and the tech billionaire.

Heidi Alexander, the U.K. courts minister, slammed the social media boss for a series of posts on the violent disorder gripping Britain in recent days.

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Musk has come under fire from government figures after he suggested Sunday that “civil war is inevitable.” The X owner has also described the U.K. police response as “one-sided” and has been directly critical of Starmer’s explicit condemnation of the far-right for attacking mosques.

“I think Elon Musk’s comments are totally unjustifiable,” Alexander told the BBC Tuesday morning. “I think at the moment everybody should be calling for calm.” And she added: “He does have a responsibility, given this huge platform that he has, and so to be honest I think his comments are pretty deplorable.”

That’s the thing. He has this huge platform, because he paid $44 billion for it. Therefore he should use it very cautiously. What he’s saying can’t be described as cautious.