Lara Spirit ✓

@lara_spirit · joined 07 Feb 2018

Deputy political editor, The Sunday Times

20 603Followers

2 834Following

2 307Posts total

769.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views57 525this account1 195median for 10K–100K

Reach, %279.21%this account3.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.26%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	57 525	1 195	48.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.8× audience	3.80%	73.5×
Engagement rate	0.26%	2.00%	0.13×

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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

50K4 Jul

61.2K18 Jul

372.1K

57.5K

19K19 Jul

75.6K25 Jul

114.7K

15.1K

4.1K26 Jul

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%4 Jul

0.41%18 Jul

0.25%

0.05%

0.47%19 Jul

0.53%25 Jul

0.18%

0.03%

0.22%26 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes66.9%1 679 in total

Reposts6.7%167 in total

Replies6.5%164 in total

Quotes3.3%83 in total

Bookmarks16.6%416 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

@lara_spirit No one’s listening. Burnham is already boring. Most people ignore politicians now and just get on with their lives 4.1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 26 Jul 2026 https://t.co/qjnIx3wODH 15.1K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 25 Jul 2026 EXC: ST politics read – Series of big interventions planned next week - plus a big devolution announcement: a portion of income tax revenue to be shared with mayors – Reshuffle hiccup: Burnham originally offered Lisa Nandy the post of energy secretary. She pushed for housing 114.7K views · 186 likes · 12 reposts · 8 replies 25 Jul 2026 🚨EXC: Andy Burnham will announce next week that mayors will receive a portion of income tax revenue to spend on their cities 75.6K views · 255 likes · 34 reposts · 76 replies 25 Jul 2026 @lara_spirit @nuwandiss The problem will come when new AI Minister ‘Claude’ sacks the other Ministers and takes over the government. 19K views · 82 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 19 Jul 2026 https://t.co/Gw1PPxr6b9 57.5K views · 20 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 18 Jul 2026 EXC: Sunday Times read – Sacked cabinet ministers are expecting to be notified on Sunday, giving them a chance to resign – No return for David Miliband – AI minister will be a cabinet-level role... 372.1K views · 821 likes · 66 reposts · 40 replies 18 Jul 2026 EXCL: Andy Burnham is expected to push Thames Water into a special form of administration in one of his first acts as prime minister Britain’s biggest water company will be put into a special administration regime (SAR) that allows essential services to keep running until a 61.2K views · 190 likes · 27 reposts · 22 replies 18 Jul 2026 EXC: Sunday Times read on Burnham's preparations for power *Policy work continuing at pace. Burnham has privately committed to scrapping jury trial reforms and his team are examining how to tighten the prison early release scheme to exclude child sex offenders *The long-awaited 50K views · 115 likes · 19 reposts · 10 replies 04 Jul 2026