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1.24M
Posts
166.2K
Following
3.6K
Account age
13 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$6.9K – $11.3K / sponsored post
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Known for
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When the Macedonian soldiers of Alexander the Great first broke into Gaza after the siege of 332BCE, they recorded what they saw and left the first eyewitness account of Gaza that survives....
1.92M views
Brilliant, brilliant Banksy
820.8K views
And now Oxford too...
680.6K views
This appalling @nytimes headline, which in an instant erases the 23,000 Palestinian dead in Gaza & the flattening of a metropolis as populous as South London, may win the Gold Medal 🏅 for most biased, insensitive and bigoted headline of the war, in a very, very crowded field.
📊 Post performance
1.47M
Avg views / post
1.2×
Reach vs followers
Nov 2012
On X since
🔥 Top post: I stayed in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for several weeks · 4.51M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.04 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 video · 9 image · 9 text.
Follower / following
341×
Follows 3.6K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Musk, Bezos & The New East India Companies
–Empire: World History
Why is the well-documented torture and rape of Palestinians being ignored by most of the media? @thetimes, @Telegraph, @BBCNews @nytimes have said not a word...
Why would Israel refuse to release a respected surgeon? There have been reports from his lawyer than Dr. Abu Safiya has been severely tortured & presumably the Israelis now fear detailed accounts emerging about their war crimes against…
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Its called ethnic cleansing, @Reuters, and its a war crime
When the Macedonian soldiers of Alexander the Great first broke into Gaza after the siege of 332BCE, they recorded what they saw and left the first eyewitness account of Gaza that survives....
"BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age"
Brilliant, brilliant Banksy
The US is behaving so monstrously under Trump that they've allowed China to replace them on the moral high ground of international law and human rights. It's that bad.
And now Oxford too...
This appalling @nytimes headline, which in an instant erases the 23,000 Palestinian dead in Gaza & the flattening of a metropolis as populous as South London, may win the Gold Medal 🏅 for most biased, insensitive and bigoted headline o…
So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete er…
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2012 — 13 years ago.
👁️Averages 1.47M views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬3.42% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 1M Followers for passing 1M followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
69/100
Good
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.2× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (13+ years old).
- 3.42% engagement — below the ~10.8% typical for this size.
Est. authentic audience
85%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. 2024 Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
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