Mark Carney has led Canada’s Liberal Party to electoral victory, overturning a 23-point lead held by the Conservatives just 100 days ago, with a campaign centred on defying Donald Trump. “America wants our land, our resources, our water,” the former governor of the Bank of England said in his victory speech. “President Trump is trying to break us so he can own us. That will never happen.” The power is back on in Spain and Portugal after yesterday’s widespread outages, though schools remain closed amid major disruption to travel networks. Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says the cause of the blackouts, which left the two countries without working trains, metros, traffic lights, phone connections and internet access, is still unknown. Champagne could save your life. Researchers from Fudan University in China found that a higher intake of bubbly is associated with lower risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Cheers.

Good riddance to Elon Musk

The world’s richest man is finally being “peeled away” from his role in Washington, says Ross Barkan in The New Statesman, and “good riddance”. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was the “worst of all worlds”: the measly savings were nowhere near the $1trn promised and have made no impact on the government’s “yawning deficit”. But more than 275,000 federal workers have been sacked, creating chaos and making it harder to collect taxes and fund scientific research. Cabinet secretaries are sick of Musk’s meddling, and more importantly, so are voters. When he invested heavily in a Wisconsin judicial race earlier this month, his candidate was soundly beaten. “All the Democrat had to do was invoke Musk.”

The Tesla boss’s return to selling electric cars may not be so glorious either, says Patrick George in The Atlantic. Last week, the world’s most valuable car company posted “abysmal” first-quarter earnings for 2025, with profits down 71% from the same time last year. On an investor call, a bitter-sounding Musk blamed the company’s misfortune on protestors agitating against his work at Doge and his boosting of far-right politicians. It’s hard to see how this problem gets solved. American EV fans, who tend to lean left, “don’t want to buy Musk’s cars any more”. In Europe, the billionaire’s overt support for Germany’s AfD has had a similar effect: sales have tanked by double digits. At the same time, competition from China is booming. Suddenly, Musk is up against dozens of Tesla-like companies that have taken his idea and run wild, with more advanced features, faster charging times and better autonomous driving. The great disruptor is beginning to look like a “legacy car company”, struggling to work out what’s next.