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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Potentially sacrilegious but: The Lord of the Rings has many great moments, and a great deal more that you kind of slog through.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My kids now complain if they say they're hungry and I *don't* reply with "hi Hungry, I'm Dad".

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are people who claim pollsters have too much influence yet every pollster has known this for about a decade.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is in fact new information to me, thank you. Will have to raise it if I ever encounter my A level English teacher again: an important omission from our course.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tautologous maybe, but: Country fucking matters.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or how about "Much Ado about Fuck All".

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Top-5 discourse-generating things of all time: - Wars - Communism - The Royal Family - US Presidential elections (all) - A publication writes down an ordered list of cultural products

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Episode 1: Greg, hung over/coming down while on work experience at one of the parks, pukes inside his giant bobble head costume.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rare example of a polling Q where there is a) an objectively correct answer, and b) that answer is "don't know".

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sam I like your posts but the ellipsis makes you sound like Michael Ashcroft.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yep, JD is one of the big exponents tho right.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just don't think we should think of his job as "pollster" in the same way as a Peter Kellner or a Martin Boon. He's always been explicitly a political actor and a business guy. IIRC he got famous through a long-running campaign to get rid of the guy who ousted his old boss.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Propensity to vote, chance of voting for, would vote tactically for... Tons of Q's people can and do use to get at potential shifts, not sure why it would be "better" to use one of these as a substitute for straightforward VI. Just ask both!

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's very underrated, how weak they are in every respect.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The top and bottom rows tell some story.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Will always reskeet "and that was the real quiz."

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh and btw as a pollster, yes, Farage's result in Clacton is a huge embarrassment for him. Reform are still 10 pts up on their GE result but they're rattled and reeling.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Literally yesterday I used ChatGPT to check a plot point from 2 books back in the series I'm reading. I found that super helpful, but I guess it means my brain is melted, RIP me.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Great prompt and great thread, can't argue with the recommendations. IMO Peter Jackson not getting enough credit for LOTR, and James Cameron for the run of Terminator-Aliens-T2.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Enough of a difference for you to think there's something real there. Should think it's to do both with Americans being richer, *and* having more of an entrepreneurial, risk-taking culture.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Am I really a good boy though? What if they've been lying all these years?"

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Having just got home from Arctic Norway: what disturbed me is not so much that it's light all the time, but that the sun is a dangerous foe because it can come at you from any angle.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Why's the red wall famous,Tommy?" <goose lowers head> "WHY'S IT FAMOUS!?"

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Think we can be pretty sure that Andy sees a dagger before him.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

IMO the instant argument is just money.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh I like this. My Labour backstory is that my grandfather was a fisherman. My Tory backstory is that he owned the boat.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The precise moment in Book V where Tolkien just says “fuck it” and dispenses with any sort of novel realism to lean into the full-blown medieval epic poem he’s been barely holding back from all along

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Yes, point taken. Presumably there exists some age at which a cohort's average wage does in fact match the population's average wage, but without that info it's quite a meaningless stat.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If half of the group earns less than the average, that in itself is strong evidence of a lack of a wage premium, as it suggests the distribution of wages within the group is v similar to that within the overall population. Right?

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Absolutely love "there is a bit of concern about annoying residents too much. But it means the data is good."

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Dr. Burnett, please take the false claim out of the headline and out of the messages promoting the article. It's going to have the opposite effect to what you intend.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

In danger of being excessively normie here but 12 year old me would kill and/or die for a 5-movie cycle of The Silmarillion. Current me says Terrence Malick directs a couple of them.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Among the weirder overcorrections to "fewer" that I've ever seen. Honestly, the grammar pedants of c. a decade ago have done untold damage.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Read the first half of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle on the plane last night and it's excellent.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is a really tricky one. E.g. the ILR reforms are announced but not passed, and a subject of internal dispute. People could be answering based on actual status quo, or apparent direction of policy travel, or simply the vibe they get from Lab on migration. Think you need more Q's (no shade on YG)

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People are missing the fact that the top of that guy's thread is one of the greatest cooking videos ever made.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Have been told that because the parades started while Norway was still run by Sweden, they made it children so as to appear non-threatening. "Who could possibly object to a bunch of kids?!" Yet little did they know.

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Peter McLeod @mcleodp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Nothing to stop genre fans making their own lists? Idk why people remain surprised that those who read for a living value different things in books than those who only read as a pastime. See also: criticism of film, art, theatre, architecture, etc.

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