Danny Shaw ✓

@DannyShawNews · joined 29 Oct 2010

Commentator on policing, criminal justice, prisons, security & immigration. Ex-BBC home affairs correspondent; former adviser to Yvette Cooper. My own views!

47 176Followers

642Following

23 893Posts total

18.5KViews on collected posts

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Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews11 Sep

Billy Dunlop - first killer convicted after ‘double jeopardy’ law change - is up for parole for a 3rd time. The victim’s mother Ann Ming - who campaigned to change the law - makes important point here about the stress & worry of repeated parole reviews: https://t.co/bEFvpaTcZZ 1.4K views · 5 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews10 Sep

NEW Backlog of immigration & asylum appeals reaches a record 156,000 - 48% up on last year. Most of the cases - 90,000 - are appeals against *asylum* decisions - this figure has doubled in 18 months. 2 in 5 asylum & immigration appeals were granted, 2025/6. In addition, there

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Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews7 Sep

@DannyShawNews We used to have NPoCC for deployments!! Many force can’t / won’t contribute as not enough level2s. Many handed tickets in or left policing. I don’t blame them. It’s a shambles .@ukhomeoffice .@PoliceChiefs .@ShabanaMahmood 141 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews7 Sep

@DannyShawNews Definitely doesn't appear to be an effective national public order capability- beyond time for some policing capability to be truly 24/7 & weekend response as well. Intelligence is a different aspect - sometimes difficult to effectively gauge numbers based on open 169 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews7 Sep

@DannyShawNews Odd, really, given they obviously knew the boats were coming... 1.3K views · 82 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews7 Sep

Two years ago, after violence around asylum hotels, the govt promised police would have a “national capability” including “shared intelligence” to deal with protesters. Was it ever set up? Didn’t appear to be functioning at the weekend given the scenes at Dover & Portsmouth. 7K views · 94 likes · 26 reposts · 45 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews4 Sep

NEW A rare peek inside Britain’s top -rated prison for children. I was given access to G4S-run Parc Young Offenders Institution in south Wales - where boys convicted of the most serious crimes, including murder & rape, are held. My piece for @telegraph: https://t.co/Qv8tYwmzbI 5.7K views · 8 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Danny Shaw ✓@DannyShawNews3 Sep

Those pesky journalists. https://t.co/6PRFImHZRP 1.6K views · 30 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views1 352this account1 056median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.87%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.20%this account1.71%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 352	1 056	1.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.87%	3.62%	0.79×
Engagement rate	2.20%	1.71%	1.29×

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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

1.6K3 Sep

5.7K4 Sep

7K7 Sep

1.3K

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141

1.2K10 Sep

1.4K11 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.04%3 Sep

0.28%4 Sep

2.36%7 Sep

6.85%

4.14%

6.38%

0.33%10 Sep

0.65%11 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.71%.

What the audience does

Likes68.8%236 in total

Reposts13.1%45 in total

Replies14.9%51 in total

Bookmarks3.2%11 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.

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