Paul Johnson

@PJTheEconomist · London, England · joined 02 Mar 2015

Provost The Queen's College, Oxford. Formerly, director IFS. Author Follow the Money - "gripping and horrifying, witty and brilliant" (The Times)

71 114Followers

495Following

4 841Posts total

144.7KViews on collected posts

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Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist2 Sep

Important context from @fiscalphillips With funding reform some councils are getting bigger increases than others in their government grants. So can’t just compare council tax rises to understand where spending is going up most. 7.9K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist2 Sep

#Counciltax is in the news again as Reform UK defend council tax rises. Some facts and figures to help make sense of this debate. 1⃣ The county councils where Reform won a majority in 2025 put up council tax by 3.9% on average, compared to 5.0% on average elsewhere. BUT... 11.3K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist1 Sep

If only we had a national statistician… The post has, astonishingly, been vacant for 15 months and counting. 9.6K views · 41 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist1 Sep

@stianwestlake @PJTheEconomist The ethics of linkage is not worked out. This makes governance horribly difficult to set up anywhere. No doubt the national statistician has work in progress 10.5K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist31 Aug

Key benefit of devolution is joining up policy across local services. To make that a reality mayoral authorities will need access to shared and linked data. This is something Whitehall has struggled with for years. Sorting it out must be a priority. https://t.co/HEbeITKIjw 16.4K views · 32 likes · 5 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist25 Aug

“Where they have been implemented in other countries, rent controls have led to lower availability of private rental housing, reductions in quality, and more households living in properties that do not suit their needs.” https://t.co/g8T3rRywCx 27.4K views · 155 likes · 46 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist19 Aug

@PJTheEconomist The Economist has been on a downhill path ever since Brexit. 770 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist19 Aug

@PJTheEconomist I think that it's gone more 'pop' since the current Editor has been in charge. 711 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist19 Aug

@PJTheEconomist Something odd is going on at the Economist. In recent wks they have also come out as anti social housing, pro animal testing and given “By Invitation” space to crypto cheerleaders & Trump’s science officer. Only Minton Beddoes’ Musk take down has kept my subscript 1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist19 Aug

I don’t know what the Economist was up to. A very odd, poorly researched and badly written article. And I generally like the Economist. Interested to know what is going on here. 59.2K views · 170 likes · 9 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views10 020this account1 084median for 10K–100K

Reach, %14.09%this account3.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.25%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	10 020	1 084	9.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	14.09%	3.91%	3.60×
Engagement rate	0.25%	1.69%	0.15×

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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

59.2K19 Aug

711

770

27.4K25 Aug

16.4K31 Aug

10.5K1 Sep

9.6K

11.3K2 Sep

7.9K

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

0.32%19 Aug

0.20%

0.56%

0.13%

0.85%25 Aug

0.31%31 Aug

0.03%1 Sep

0.50%

0.10%2 Sep

0.08%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.

What the audience does

Likes67.4%417 in total

Reposts11.1%69 in total

Replies8.4%52 in total

Quotes1.8%11 in total

Bookmarks11.3%70 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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