arthur

well a luxury liner, 40 tonnes of steel, if i don't find my baby now then i guess i never will

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@AlwayswarriorM @BBC frontfooted hungry for it they've been coached well front fucking footed

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@AlwayswarriorM @BBC iraq haven't been bad tbf more annoyed by the fact they have literally nothing to say

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Self-professed sexist calls man who assaulted female police officer his ‘hero’.

Reform UK has a serious problem with women.

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

Notice british boomers are always going on about the country 'they grew up in' and not 'the country our generation made'.

Because it'd reveal their utter failure as a generation.

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@jo59412nl @DavidMcGregorBN why not both

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@_SignalNotNoise @TheEverydayMan_ @PolitlcsUK they have been cooking it differently in most schools for decades tbf. i agree that the lifestyle bit needs to change and that technology plays a massive part in it. but dunno how you arrived at the conclusion that you should vote for a far-right party with views like that

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@Conservatives nationalisation with nigel farage? am i losing my fucking mind?

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

i will be performing my seminal piece 'opening my birthday cards in eastbourne wetherspoons' at quarter past four this afternoon

[Roger McGuinn @RogerMcGuinn]

@Norma5387953815 Party on dude!

[6'2shin @2SHIN]

we've regressed so much as a society I don't even like telling 22 year olds how good it used to be because it's just so unfair

[Sugar Spun Sister @Re_hiro_Ramone]

おはようございます☕️

朝から静かな雨ふりです☔️
先日買ったマンチェスターのナイスなインディポップで三連休スタート！
Slumberland Recordsは昔からいいバンドのリリースが多くて安心と信頼のインディレーベルなのだ☺️✨

https://t.co/GJTfMNAEYz
Autocamper / What Do You Do All Day?(2025)🇬🇧

[本名 @YowaiNingenDesu]

AutocamperのSpotifyでのバイオが「not anorak, not twee, not lucky, just pop」で良かった。アノラックってワードをジャンル名みたいに使うのって日本だけかと勝手に思ってたけど別にそんなことないか。

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@technopopulist what the fuck are you talking about

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Firms that donated to Labour handed £138m in contracts https://t.co/L8t3sd8zvm

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

@ThamesTVArchive have you any robert carrier?

[Jolyon Rubinstein @JolyonRubs]

Far right Tommy Robinson Rally receiving more BBC coverage than every single march for Palestine in the last 2 years. For shame

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

in america if you don’t mourn the 21st century hitler youth program director you get fired from your job

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government:

One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience.

But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned.

Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position.

The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done.

The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off.

This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage.

As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.”

Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth.

We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves.

Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

was doing crosswords with the mafia in my dream last night and woke up in my parents house with no job

[arthur @TheArthurJunior]

.@BBCNewsnight what the hell is this nonsense? you say palestine action are incomparable to other direct action protest groups and then it's straight on to cocomelon and mr beast vs piers morgan? who tf cares? lib dem was fine but @adamfleming @kateferguson4 you're both disturbed