Log in to Kuwaitjunior. blogspot.com and a short film shot secretly on a mobile phone apparently shows a prospective voter pledging to honour the bribe she has just received from a prominent candidate in today’s polls.

What started off last year as just another site among proliferating blogs discussing social and political affairs in the Arab world, has become a thorn in the side of less reform-minded politicians and royals. The young graduate founders of Kuwaitjunior have morphed into a movement calling itself Kuwait5, complete with orange flags and badges.