Tom Leicester

Political economist and decline enjoyer. Noticer. 'Come sit by me for a while, and I'll tell you of the fate of Empires.'

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

When someone says they don’t like UK food, they are trying to murder or at best replace you.

Realise what time it is.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@Pte_Pine_Marten Founders lowering their cortisol by reading Legacy books

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Read my debut in J’accuse.

[J’accuse @Jaccusepaper]

Tom Leicester makes his J’accuse debut.
https://t.co/voigMjdJJI

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@Pte_Pine_Marten Long-form is Old Money coded, to be fair

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

The Bakerloo Line is giving Backrooms ngl. But also Old Money vibes.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Oh my sweet summer child.

The RMT?

The ones who bring UK capital to a halt every bloody month?

They do it because they think it’s funny.

They’re laughing at you.

But sure, they’re “based.”

Twerking for Blue Labour as the walls fall in.

[TDJR @TDJR1124]

@leviathan_rots How can you have freedom of capital without freedom of workers right to organise?

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Canny, in its way.

But goodbye UK growth.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

Reform is now the party of workers.

Today I am inviting trade unions to apply for affiliation with Reform UK.

We also welcome union leaders to attend our national conference in September and engage in discussions about the policies of a future Reform government.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@polzete @orbemutas @Jaccusepaper Bros spending generational wealth on pure copium 😆

[Ravelstein @raverstein1]

@leviathan_rots our natural inclination is to explore seek out the nova/new, there's a reason why we conquered continents for a few spices.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Love him or hate him.

He speaks to something in the Anglo spirit.

Innkeeper/Henry VIII physiognomy.

Good vibes.

[Coral @Coral]

Big John Eats the WORLD | Mexico vs USA! 🍔

Both are host nations this summer, but will it be a Yeee-Bosh or a Yarriva Bosh?

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@Nebbuchadnezza It’s Indian-coded now ngl

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

When I worked in tech/SW1, I'd often pop out for a Pret a Manger sandwich.

Sure, it wasn't a gourmet meal - but it was simple, tasty, and, most of all, quick.

Now the brand has been cooked by fumbling Boriswave staff.

How much more can they take away from us?

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@britpopforali They’ll at least bring some competence as an anecdote to the slop.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Seeing the TL making fun of this.

You're not on Andrew's level.

Bro's spent 50 years at the top of UK politics, media, influence.

Understand that context, and his move from GBN makes sense.

That wasn't a misstep – that was a strategic play in a game where brand is everything.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A new venture on podcast platforms and YouTube

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

In the past, I feel like society was The Adults, looking after The Children

I liked that. It was calm.

Today feels like The State Hates Everyone.

It's just unpleasant.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Don't get me wrong – I wish he hadn't left.

Hell, I'd love a no-nonsense legacy anchor riding the vibe shift on GBN.

But it's odd to see people trying to teach the status game to a master player.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

@polzete Call it having been on the inside.

I know where the bodies are buried 😉

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

A high-status proposal.

This is the way to get "Taylor Swift Tories" (cf. John Oxley) to join Reform - or even Restore.

[Reem Ibrahim @ReemAmirIbrahim]

Britain must legalise pepper spray.

If a Sikh man can legally carry a ceremonial knife, a young woman should be allowed to carry pepper spray.

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

Again and again, every day.

UK food deconstructed.

Understand how much they hate you.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

I think British people actually enjoy eating bad food; it's some kind of performative modesty thing, like good food would be extravagant, and also they take pride in the grit required to get it down

[Zack 🇬🇧 @ZickZaggurat]

A very studious and kind Muslim girl in my tutor group has joined us this term from a tiny boarding school her parents were priced out of, after fee increases resulting from VAT.

She is bereft, forced to sit her exams in an unfamiliar place.

We don’t hate these people enough

[Tom Leicester @leviathan_rots]

The Staggers comes out against the upper-normie 'high twee' of Paddington.

In a funny sort of way.

It's the New Statesman that's riding the vibe shift.

The literal house journal of the Labour Party.

Crazy times.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

In a stairwell in the old Truman Brewery, two men and a humanoid robot are waiting for the lift. The robot is tottering slightly, emitting a soft whirring noise; one of the men places a steadying hand on its slim plastic shoulder. A wall has been painted luminous pink and stencilled with massive black letters that say: Leave Your Algorithm Behind. On another wall, it is declared: Don’t Fear the Change Reimagine It. In a nearby hotel, Hugh Bonneville – the adoptive father of Paddington, the nation’s favourite imaginary bear – is preparing to tell a government minister how to cope with the future. None of this makes any sense, nor is it supposed to.

🎨 @willydunn's sketch: At SXSW, the festival of AI optimism comes to London once again

https://t.co/75QRG5Q6lA

[Blairite Jihadism @sapninluv2]

@leviathan_rots We are the red squirrels they forgot to replace…