Tom Burgis ✓
@tomburgis · London and roaming · joined 25 Oct 2011
@guardian investigations. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland, The Looting Machine. Signal tomburgis.43. Send us info in confidence.
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@tomburgis And-why did #ChristopherHarborne give £1million to @BorisJohnson - after he left Downing St?
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@tomburgis You only need to see how |Reform councils fawn over JCB pothole machines after a large donation to assume the direction of travel
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Nigel Farage’s “intensely private” billionaire megadonor Christopher Harborne is known as a crypto baron. But he has another empire too. A military one. It extends from Thailand to Washington. What would that mean for a UK under Reform? Here’s the story.
https://t.co/pCopjTyGpq
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Trump’s envoy to Greenland says Americans could start pumping oil in the territory the president wants to claim for the US. A ship with drilling kit is set to sail. My latest investigation into how moneymaking linked to Trump is reshaping the world.
https://t.co/t2n7eac30M
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A little-known American company is on the brink of $1bn in Balkans energy contracts including building a new gas pipeline. It has no record of such huge infrastructure projects. What it does have is connections to Donald Trump. https://t.co/ZlsoaTKwua
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Hats off to @antoniacundy @miss_marriage @pcaruanagalizia and the @FT for standing up to a legal onslaught on their brilliant investigation into Crispin Odey. (Plus the unsung hero, the unflappable Nigel Hanson)
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In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us.
This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired.
It's about the brave women who spoke out — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed.
https://t.co/13G8n5TyPn
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And now a brilliant scoop by my Guardian colleague @Annaisaac reveals that Harborne gave Farage £5m just before he announced he was standing in the 2024 election. https://t.co/QI2FVSez81
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@rowenamason @Direthoughts Another pic of this chap from the same gathering: https://t.co/q57CDH3kWs
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One Harborne mystery still to be solved is: who is this man, sitting with Harborne, Farage & co at the Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary during the gathering I describe in this piece. @rowenamason @Direthoughts and I have yet to figure it out. DM us if you know. https://t.co/PARqCZ4N80
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@tomburgis Important work Tom. Some of us have been sounding the alarm about Chris Harborne since at least January 2024:
https://t.co/EqwimrMCy0
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A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne https://t.co/CLCwSuTdRH
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@tomburgis @mrjamesob When Netflix picks this up, can you insist it is serialised rather than a 1 hr 30-minute job with gaps everywhere?
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@tomburgis #KLEPTOPIA https://t.co/LpeNMiAMqn
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***NEW INVESTIGATION*** How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad - and won.
I’ve been working on this story for 15 years. It goes from South Africa to Moscow via the London Stock Exchange. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a
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Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views3 044this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %9.11%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.75%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 044 | 924 | 3.29× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 9.11% | 3.62% | 2.52× |
| Engagement rate | 2.75% | 1.52% | 1.81× |
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
1.2K12 Sep
1M25 Apr
9.8K
44.9K
4.3K
1.5K29 Apr
19.4K15 May
3K
184.7K30 May
1.7K10 Jul
225.5K30 Aug
3.7K
2.4K
2.2K
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
0.56%12 Sep
0.63%25 Apr
4.81%
1.42%
1.45%
1.97%29 Apr
0.35%15 May
0.72%
1.69%30 May
0.92%10 Jul
0.40%30 Aug
2.77%
2.87%
2.73%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes55.4%7 831 in total
Reposts31.8%4 497 in total
Replies1.6%223 in total
Quotes1.4%196 in total
Bookmarks9.8%1 384 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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