Ed Balls
@edballs · London-Castleford-Cambridge MA · joined 12 Oct 2008
Dad, cook, pianist, drummer, Good Morning Britain, Political Currency, King’s College Ldn, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, retired dancer, former Cabinet Minister
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Today @EricPickles and I launched the @UKHMF exhibition in the UK Parliament showcasing the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, as reported in @JewishChron
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Spades in the ground for Holocaust Memorial Centre before Burnham leaves Downing Street, pledges Ed Balls - The Jewish Chronicle https://t.co/zVqF44szEC
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Today @EricPickles and I launched our @UKHMF ‘What Britain Knew’ exhibition in Westminster, showcasing the planned UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre: we write about it today in @JewishNewsUK before the exhibition tours the UK this autumn
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A serious country does not build Holocaust remembrance on comfort, but on truth - Jewish News https://t.co/f90ahx7p5l
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🖥️ Out now on YouTube: https://t.co/rcI2SxuPh0
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Check out the @YouTube video - our @polcurrency team have done such a brilliant job - and the British Museum lead curator, Michael Lewis @Tostig1066 is excellent - and not just because of the #ncfc shirt
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Don’t miss this cracking @polcurrency - recorded today at the British Museum: we discuss the Bayeaux Tapestry plus @andyburnham in parliament, the vital October Budget and how the opposition parties are responding - listen now or watch this evening on @YouTube @George_Osborne
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@edballs Above this "career highlight?" https://t.co/itFEGDAKf7
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@edballs Surely interviewing your wife (Home Sec.) and throwing low ball questions was the highlight?
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@edballs As I recall the Perm Sec was so star struck he couldn’t speak
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Dolly Parton at the Department for Education in 2008. She had to be smuggled in through the backdoor to avoid detection.
Dolly's Imagination Library has put millions of books into children's hands and sparked a lifelong love of reading among young people around the globe.
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Interesting answers @edballs @George_Osborne - the "what next?" is a bit of fun, but the "what made a difference?" bit is the core of historical analysis. Thanks for answering question & I think the team relationships/chemistry point rings true as ways to go beyond individuals...
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Our fourth Harvard-Kings paper on regional growth - a decidedly mixed stocktake of progress over the last two years, plus what the new Prime Minister needs to do to revive the growth agenda - is out today. Dan has done a great thread with a link to the paper at the top:
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Two years ago Labour promised a “devolution revolution” to drive growth. Today, with @edballs, Nyasha Weinberg, @annastansbury and @ElsdenEsme, we publish our verdict: a government at risk of squandering the best opportunity in a generation. A🧵 https://t.co/JB0lV0eSPF
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views13 308this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %4.73%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.18%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 13 308 | 5 983 | 2.22× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.73% | 1.49% | 3.17× |
| Engagement rate | 0.18% | 0.93% | 0.20× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
16.3K24 Aug
10.7K
217K26 Aug
124.9K
17.4K
310
53427 Aug
13K3 Sep
19.6K
12.1K4 Sep
22K7 Sep
9.5K
13.6K
9.8K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.02%24 Aug
0.07%
0.94%26 Aug
1.85%
0.15%
1.29%
1.12%27 Aug
0.08%3 Sep
0.03%
0.03%4 Sep
0.29%7 Sep
0.34%
0.07%
0.21%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes88.2%4 196 in total
Reposts5.8%276 in total
Replies2.5%120 in total
Quotes0.7%33 in total
Bookmarks2.8%133 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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