Liam Halligan ✓

@LiamHalligan · London, Saffron Walden · joined 09 Aug 2011

Economic Agenda columnist @Telegraph; Planet Normal Co-Pilot; Director @CPSThinkTank; When The Facts Change https://t.co/uJHyIpeEHT; @HooligansbandUK

75 648Followers

2 487Following

15 435Posts total

482.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 611this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.42%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %6.06%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 611	2 578	2.18×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.42%	7.77%	0.95×
Engagement rate	6.06%	1.47%	4.12×

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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

414.2K19 Mar

15.2K

3.4K

18.9K23 Aug

212

229

177

13.4K24 Aug

10.8K

5.6K28 Aug

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.76%19 Mar

2.36%

2.28%

3.99%23 Aug

10.85%

6.11%

9.04%

6.06%24 Aug

2.36%

1.05%28 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes74.2%4 225 in total

Reposts17.4%991 in total

Replies4.4%252 in total

Quotes0.6%34 in total

Bookmarks3.4%191 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

This will be good 🎻🎸☘️ "The Hooligans" Sunday 30th August Railway Arms Saffron Walden https://t.co/H7Kv5mCvL4 5.6K views · 48 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies 28 Aug 2026 Lots of comments under my latest When The Facts Change free-to-view interview with Reform Shadow Chancellor @RobertJenrick. Most of them about the interview itself 🙄🙄 Having laid out proposals to slash welfare spending by a huge £50 billion a year, Jenrick stresses the urgent h 10.8K views · 206 likes · 40 reposts · 8 replies 24 Aug 2026 Having laid out proposals to slash welfare spending by a huge £50 billion a year, Reform Shadow Chancellor @RobertJenrick says unless welfare is radically overhauled, the UK faces a re-run of the 1976 IMF bailout. In the clip below, Jenrick argues that the UK's welfare system is 13.4K views · 621 likes · 165 reposts · 27 replies 24 Aug 2026 @LiamHalligan @lyeemoon Yes the country is in a crisis. Stop foreign aid, net zero subsidies, benefits for foreigners, university grants for foreign students, money for quangos, money to DEI organisations and the other unnecessary spending and we will see if ending the triple loc 177 views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @LiamHalligan “IF” Reform commit to dropping the “Triple Lock” it’s likely to cost them the election! A huge amount of their support comes from that demographic and it would be political suicide! Jenrick is just being realistic! 229 views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @LiamHalligan Scraping the triple lock would be political suicide, better to scrap the money we give to all the charity organisations. This could save in the region of about 20 billion 212 views · 20 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 "I think there’s a very high chance we end up in some kind of fiscal crisis, with bond markets taking fright, if we don’t do this welfare form ... it would be like what happened in the 1970s" Having laid out proposals to slash welfare spending by a huge £50 billion a year, https 18.9K views · 583 likes · 123 reposts · 43 replies 23 Aug 2026 @LiamHalligan @BurnsideWasTosh Will be checking out these posts by Liam 3.4K views · 73 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 19 Mar 2025 And here is my launch post: "Why and I am starting this Subs£$*k, who I am - and why you might want to subscribe" The post contains buttons where you can (pay to) subscribe, ensuring you get full access to my future work on "When the Facts Change - economics and politics in a 15.2K views · 271 likes · 62 reposts · 24 replies 19 Mar 2025 Some personal/professional news: I'm launching "When the Facts Change - economics and politics in a fast-changing world". Click on the link in my X biography to read my first post. I'll obviously continue to write my weekly "Economics Agenda" column for the Telegraph, and http 414.2K views · 2.4K likes · 586 reposts · 144 replies 19 Mar 2025