Peter Walker

@peterwalker99 · London, UK · joined 23 Jun 2008

Guardian senior political correspondent. DMs open. Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com

50 142Followers

855Following

8 756Posts total

117.2KViews on collected posts

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

4.4K17 Dec

58.5K30 Dec

598

1.5K

425

20.4K31 Dec

412

1981 Jan

283

17.5K18 May

9.4K23 Jul

3.5K2 Mar

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.93%17 Dec

1.24%30 Dec

4.18%

4.25%

1.88%

0.94%31 Dec

4.85%

4.04%1 Jan

3.89%

0.19%18 May

0.19%23 Jul

0.23%2 Mar

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes67.0%895 in total

Reposts18.0%240 in total

Replies9.7%130 in total

Quotes1.7%23 in total

Bookmarks3.6%48 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

@SwintonGroup Hello, how does anyone cancel their policy with you? It can't be done on the website or via email, the phone no on your website goes to an exasperated garage owner, and your chat bot disconnects. Any clues? Or just cancel the direct debit? 3.5K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 02 Mar 2026 @AvantiWestCoast Hello, I'm trying to buy tickets for two 14-year-olds from Manchester to London, but your phone person said they need an adult with them. But that's not true, is it? I was previously told they can travel if they both have letters of permission from parents. 9.4K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 10 replies 23 Jul 2025 Andor: 29 brilliant and *very* minor characters, ranked. A THREAD I don't post here any more because.... well, you know. But this (should be) so uncontroversial and it's so off my usual subject I'm giving it a go. ** contains some spoilers ** 17.5K views · 21 likes · 3 reposts · 9 replies 18 May 2025 @peterwalker99 Time for some self-reflection @peterwalker99. It's exactly that one-sided story that you constantly write about, which makes people dislike you. "There's no mystery to it". 283 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Jan 2025 @peterwalker99 I'm an immigrant, and I can say that Sadiq shit is the worst mayor ever. 198 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Jan 2025 @peterwalker99 @DavidHeadViews Stamping your feet and calling people who disagree with you racist, doesn't make them racist, but it does make you an intolerant idiot. The real racists are those who can't tolerate religious celebrations by other faiths, such as Khan with Christmas 412 views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 31 Dec 2024 Not every anomalous media criticism of Sadiq Khan is directly motivated by racism - eg this BBC story. But they are the housetrained edges of a deeply racist set of assumptions which sees negative stories about Khan get loads of clicks and engagement. There’s no mystery to it. ht 20.4K views · 124 likes · 22 reposts · 43 replies 31 Dec 2024 @peterwalker99 Given lack of investment in Santander Cycles, it might be more appropriate to be photographed amongst a forest of Lime Bikes blocking disabled access. Not a single berth on or by Camberwell New Road or Myatts Fields; you are silent on this but profess to sing the 425 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 30 Dec 2024 @peterwalker99 ATE's blind focus on cycling schemes make walking and bus use less appealing and therefore harm the UK's health. Floating bus stops endanger blind & elderly people, while LTNs and replacing bus lanes with cycle lanes congest roads and delay bus services. https: 1.5K views · 45 likes · 18 reposts · 2 replies 30 Dec 2024 @peterwalker99 Boardman’s conflation of cycling with walking under the banner active travel is problematic. He doesn’t distinguish between active wheeling and its inactive form - battery-powered bikes/scooters. He also fails to mention the problems inactive wheels on pavements ca 598 views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 30 Dec 2024 I interviewed Chris Boardman about his many careers, including current role at Active Travel England. He told me that fact-free anti-cycling media stories are harming the UK's health as they put off politicians from making brave but necessary decisions. https://t.co/qbTkX8vSX7 58.5K views · 524 likes · 139 reposts · 48 replies 30 Dec 2024 🎶Let it flow 🎶 Oh, the traffic outside is frightful Inside the LTNs it's delightful The traffics more stop than go Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow Councils show no sign of stopping The lies they tell are whopping Congesting traffic kills they know Let it flow, let it htt 4.4K views · 107 likes · 57 reposts · 6 replies 17 Dec 2024

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