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 150Followers
495Following
4 851Posts total
2.7MViews on collected posts
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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.
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#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...
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If only we had a national statistician… The post has, astonishingly, been vacant for 15 months and counting.
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@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
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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
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“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
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@PJTheEconomist The Economist has been on a downhill path ever since Brexit.
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@PJTheEconomist I think that it's gone more 'pop' since the current Editor has been in charge.
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@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
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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.
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@PJTheEconomist @DanNeidle It's not "context" - it's disinformation intended to whitewash his party's attack on family farms.
As an economist, it shouldn't be difficult to check the average cost of agricultural land (£11,300/acre), then add in the value of buildings, equipment e
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@PJTheEconomist @DanNeidle Except that Dan Neidle's figures on the impact on family farms are misleading because he includes hobby farms and smallholdings in his figures. The "tax breaks" (your pejorative term) were introduced for a good reason. To stop family farms beng broken
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@PJTheEconomist @DanNeidle 🚜Farming IS special. It’s damn hard work 365 in all winds and weathers. Not a job but a way of life and a tough, stressful one. The motivations: love of the land, nature, family, livestock, feeling rooted to a place, being productive. Apparently impossi
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Lots of over-the-top coverage right now about the £1m cap on inheritance tax agricultural property relief (APR).
Quick thread:
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Face aux comptes de taille comparable
10 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé largement, mais peu de ces spectateurs réagissent.
Vues médianes10 020ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K
Portée, %14.08%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.25%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K
| Indicateur | Ce compte | Médiane pour 10K–100K | Rapport |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vues médianes par post | 10 020 | 924 | 10.8× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 14.08% | 3.62% | 3.89× |
| Taux d'engagement | 0.25% | 1.52% | 0.17× |
Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →
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
2.5M31 Oct
4.8K1 Nov
3.7K
1.1K
59.2K19 Aug
1K
711
770
27.4K25 Aug
16.4K31 Aug
10.5K1 Sep
9.6K
11.3K2 Sep
7.9K
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
0.41%31 Oct
2.90%1 Nov
3.79%
1.90%
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 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes56.1%7 574 in total
Reposts16.7%2 250 in total
Replies2.9%385 in total
Quotes7.3%988 in total
Bookmarks17.1%2 311 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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How many followers does @PJTheEconomist have?
71 150 followers.
How many posts has @PJTheEconomist published?
4 851 posts.
How do posts by @PJTheEconomist perform?
Collected posts: 14. Views: 2 670 865. Likes: 7 574.