Charlie Walsham ✓

@CharlieWalsham_ · joined 13 Jun 2026

Pseudonymous BBC journalist. Media, politics, free speech & groupthink. A British view of the culture wars. Personal views. Words in The Spectator.

10 894Followers

1 065Following

2 465Posts total

216.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views648this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.95%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %7.15%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	648	3 383	0.19×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.95%	10.96%	0.54×
Engagement rate	7.15%	1.40%	5.10×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

213.5K11 Aug

6483 Sep

629

1.6K

197

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.99%11 Aug

7.41%3 Sep

7.15%

8.75%

6.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes82.0%7 586 in total

Reposts9.2%853 in total

Replies3.2%293 in total

Quotes0.3%27 in total

Bookmarks5.3%489 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Social media has given everyone a voice. I’m no longer certain that giving everyone a voice has made public debate better. The loudest, angriest and most certain people are rewarded. Nuance disappears. Doubt looks weak. Changing your mind looks like defeat. Yet changing your 197 views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I’ve been reading feedback on my posts that mention Israel, and I still don’t understand the obsession it inspires in sections of the Western left. Don’t misunderstand me. There are figures in the Israeli government who appear to have lost their humanity. There are those on the 1.6K views · 111 likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 There has to be some foundation of reality beneath political debate. A man cannot literally become a woman by declaring it. Not every culture has identical values or produces identical outcomes. Israel is not uniquely malevolent among all the nations on Earth. We can argue 629 views · 37 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 One of the strangest features of modern politics is that almost every disagreement now feels existential. If the other side wins, democracy is finished. Minorities are in danger. The country is finished. The world will end. If every argument becomes a fight for survival, why 648 views · 37 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 I’m a British journalist who’s spent more than 20 years working inside mainstream media. Over the past decade, I’ve become increasingly concerned by something happening inside journalism and other institutions: opinions once considered perfectly ordinary are becoming unsayable, 213.5K views · 7.4K likes · 825 reposts · 274 replies 11 Aug 2026