Loot and Plunder

Loot and Plunder

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Followers
3.8K
Posts
4.1K
Following
2.1K
Account age
10 yrs

Known for

📊 Post performance

20.7K
Avg views / post
5.4×
Reach vs followers
Feb 2016
On X since

🔥 Top post: 🧵1/11 Lord Hannan of Kingsclere @DanielJHannan fired off a broad · 503.2K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.19 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 2 video · 13 image · 3 text.
Follower / following
1.8×
Follows 2.1K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post 🧵1/11 Lord Hannan of Kingsclere @DanielJHannan fired off a broadside in yesterday's @Telegraph in the war against Britain's "Great Awokening" - a conflict fought on all sides with snippets of history and weaponised quotes. At least one of his quotes looked a bit odd ... 503.2K❤ 705🔁 250
This covers both of us today - Ethiopian Christmas and the First Sunday of Epiphany. Merry both everyone. 5.2K❤ 125🔁 21 GOOD NEWS ALERT: (Goodness knows we need some) The King's Own Royal Regiment Museum in Lancaster has employed renowned everything expert @DerilloEyob to look into its collection of artefacts brough back from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian/Ethio… 14.4K❤ 119🔁 30 1/2 This is what repatriation looks like. A sacred Tabot stolen by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868, returned this week, reconsecrated and celebrated in St. Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox church London today. Thanks to @alulapan for the foo… 147.3K❤ 1.3K🔁 345 Loot of the day: While we're thinking of crowns in Britain, let's remember this one, stolen from Ethiopia in 1868, now in the @V_and_A. 38.2K❤ 311🔁 95 🧵11/11 @DanielJHannan also cites a king who "was reported" to be making a fortune selling slaves. Another who called the trade "the ruling principle of my people". But the original for that one is just as elusive. In this wokery war, every… 18.6K❤ 184🔁 16 🧵10/11 The truth is, through all those layers, we will never know what the ruler of Bonny really thought about the trade in enslaved people that exploded in size and corrupted all it touched, fed by British demand... 18.6K❤ 129🔁 11 🧵9/11 And third, someone (Hugh Thomas?) has then taken those twisted words and rendered them into formal C19th English. The ridiculous references to people selling excess wives into slavery have been cut. A misrepresented chat has been san… 19.7K❤ 117🔁 10 🧵7/11 Whatever Bonny's ruler actually said has gone through at least three layers of obfuscation and manipulation. First they are words written down days, months, even years after the event - have a go now at transcribing a conversation yo… 20.7K❤ 126🔁 12 🧵6/11 These are the words recorded by Hugh Crow: "But we tink trade no stop, for all we Jew-Jew-man' [the priests] tell we so, for dem say you country no can niber pass God A’mighty." Barely a word shared with the widely reproduced "oracle… 22K❤ 122🔁 13 🧵5/11 The problem comes when you try to track down the original. Hugh Thomas cites the memoirs a Liverpool slave captain, Hugh Crow. But you will search those memoirs in vain for any reference to verdicts or oracles. Here's what turns up i… 23.2K❤ 134🔁 19 Look at this cross! A whole theological system in its intricate carvings. Plundered by the @britishmuseum's expert on the 1868 invasion of Ethiopia. The most striking thing about the catalogue details? "Location: Not on display." Plunder d… 25.5K❤ 187🔁 64

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2016 — 10 years ago.
👁️Averages 20.7K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
💬9.16% engagement rate.

🛡️ Audience credibility

86/100 Excellent
  • Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~5.4× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Established account (10+ years old).
  • 9.16% engagement — around average for this size on X.
Est. authentic audience
97%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

On stolen stuff and other treasure, by Andrew Heavens, author of The Prince and the Plunder, about how the UK took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia

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