# AQ 15 mins

# Jeremy Hardy, NQ

JH's opening salvo in the News Quiz included an OP.

# Carswell DPol 30 mins

Douglas Carswell discussing party membership.
30 mins in "you need a system of i-membership that allows ordinary people to sign up very easily and be involved".

# Marr 10 mins in

Marr show, papers review, Sturgeon described as an OP by Gillian ?

Also Peter Hitchins speaking of grammar schools on 16 mins.

# BBC1 TV News 6:25

Will Gomperz on a architecture prize.
[your faithful correspondent reporting from a brewery tour of Brussels]

# Farage SPol 12 mins

# Dianne Abbott R4 AQ 8:30

# R4 PM

5:38, Steve Evans, reporting on Korea.

R4 Feedback, 12 mins in

McClusky Marr OWP 22 mins

September summary

Previous - Subsequent

to follow

# Corbyn

R4 5pm news [19 Oct] catching up, too late to get the detail.

#63 Corbyn conference speech

The speech was broadcast live on DPol

37 mins in, 4 OPs in one paragraph on human rights campaigners, "... this was a campaign of ordinary people, ordinary people like you and me standing on cold drafty streets ... because that is how our human rights were won, by ordinary people, coming together, ordinary people, doing extraordinary things ..."

And at 1:07,   "I'm proud of our history. I'm proud of the history of ordinary people ..."

Image from the broadcast.

Audio clips - first - second.

No postcard, again the moment has been missed, this update on 19th Oct. And in any case, I think he's doing in on purpose.

#62 Corbyn on Marr, two OPs

The Andrew Marr show from the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Two occurrences:

On Russian participation in Syria, "who are the losers of that? ordinary people"

Asked about John McDonnell's choice of words in the past, he first focussed on his role as Shadow Chancellor "how much they are going to improve the lives of ordinary people in Britain"

Image from the show.

Audio clips - first - second.
Not postcarded: missed the moment, this being written up on 19th Oct.

#61 John Sudworth on R4 6:44

Report from China. John Sudworth.

Image from Twitter.

Not postcarded.

TParl 23:41

R4 Today in Parliament, at 23:42, Thursday.

[19 Oct] Too late to follow up.

DPol 33 mins in, various ordinaries

Rob Williams at TUC conference.

43 mins ordinary backgrounds, discussing the Tories pursuit of the white van vote, and ordinary run of voters  and ordinary families from Ken Baker at 45 mins.

4 PM 15:16 reporting Corbyn at the TUC

[19 Oct] I have run out of time to grab the details.

#60 Mark Serwotka DPol Sowotka OP DPol

Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, DPol 14th Sep, 32 mins in.

"I agree that we should be bringing some of our financial institutions under public control because at the minute we nationalise the debts while we privatise  the profits. Ordinary people suffer while that bankers do incredibly well."

Image from the broadcast.

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#59 Ken Livingstone 3* OPs DPol

Ken Livingstone, 14th Sep, Daily politics, multiple occurrences.

"We had a Labour government that was in awe of the bankers. We didn't rebuild good jobs for ordinary people. We didn't build home that their kids can afford to rent or buy ...  Jeremy Corbyn has got a strategy that can lift us out of austerity without increasing borrowing or increasing taxes for ordinary people."

"People saw that a small elite had done very well, the bankers haved got back on their bonuses. Ordinary people are still struggling to make ends meet." 

Image from the broadcast.

Audio clips - first - second.

#58 20:48 R4X Michael Coveney

The R4Ex web site says,

How Dame Maggie Smith got the acting bug. Peter Firth reads Michael Coveney's biography of one Britain's best-loved actors.

It includes a passage on Alan Bennett's writing for the Dame,

"affectionate and wry on the everyday speech or ordinary people"

The likely candidate for the postcard would be Michael Coveney, but I probably won't bother.

#57 Corbyn R4 News 12:02 am

R4 12o'c news reported Jeremy Corbyn's acceptance speech

"During this amazing three months our party has changed. We've grown enormously .. because of  the hopes of so many ordinary people for a different Britain..."

Image from The Independent.

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#56 Richard Burgon OP on WatO R4 13.20

World at One with Martha Kearney questioned Richard Burgon MP on the Labour Party elections. He said, 20 mins in,

"When this election is over we need to be looking outwards, out into the country, getting on with the job of fighting the Conservatives and what they are doing to ordinary people up and down the country."

Image from Twitter.

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#55 Christiane Amanpour on the Marr show

The Andrew Marr show has returned and delivered when Christiane Amanpour (CNN's chief international correspondent) and (columnist and author) Owen Jones reviewed the papers. Amanpour 8 mins. in, discussing (what else) the migrant / refugee crisis and our reaction to it,

"These are ordinary people who are helping .. these are ordinary British people..."

Image from the show.

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R4 Woman's Hour ordinary neurotic person

Woman's Hour seems to be on morning, noon and night at the moment.

Woman's HourLate Night Woman's Hour: Thoughts, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly. 4th Sep.

Programme Description,

"Jane Garvey explores unthinkable thoughts, sexual fantasies and our inner lives with writers Joanna Kavenna, Madeleine Bunting, Annabel Pitcher and psychotherapist Brett Kahr."

15 mins. in, Brett Kahr distinguished between 'ordinary neurotic' people and 'forensic personalities' and Annabel Pitcher took it personally. On second thoughts, it was probably Jane Garvey.

Image from the web site.

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August Summary

Previous - Subsequent

It has been a thin month. The good news is that Andrew Marr begins again on Sunday and Daily Politics on Monday.

Hits

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
53	13 Aug	Sanchia Berg	R4 Today
54	20 Aug	Sean Kemp	R4 Today

Near Misses

Date	Person	Occasion	Comments
9th Aug	Sian Williams	Sunday Morning Live	ordinary working men (quoting Orwell)
11th Aug	Stephen Timms	R4 Today	ordinary UK citizens (twice)
15th Aug	Rupert Wingfield-Hayes	R4 Toay	ordinary Japanese
16th Aug	The Very Rev'd Adrian Dorber	R4 Sunday Worship	ordinary citizens of Japan
17th Aug	Diana Speed	R4 Today	ordinary workers
19th Aug	Evan Davis	Newsnight	ordinary voters
24th Aug	Jonty Bloom	WatO	ordinary Chinese people
28th Aug	James O'Brien	Newsnight	ordinary voters

Good Usage
Again, nothing new

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
40	11th June	David Lindo	Today	Used it nicely,
-	12th Jun	Katie Cutler	R4 World Tonight	Used it sweetly.
-	12th May	Andrew Neil	Daily Politics	adroit recovery
-	23rd May	Bruce Anderson	Spectator	good usage

Analysis of sources

Source	Users
Andrew Marr Show	Ed Balls, Kristin Scott Thomas, Caroline Flint, Diane Abbot
Any Questions	Joanna Cherry
Big Questions	Kunle Olulode
Daily Politics	Frances O'Grady, Jonathan Isaby, Carole Malone, Shabana Mahmood, Giles Dilnot, IDS, Andrew Neil, Jon Trickett, Angela Eagle, Andrew Neil again
Front Row, Radio 4	John Wilson
Moral Maze	Ed Mayo, Paul Collier, Melanie Phillips, Colin Coward
Newsnight	Evan Davis, Peter Kellner, James O'Brien & Will Self, James O'Brien again
PM, Radio 4	Bridget Kendall, Norman Smith, John Hayes
Radio 4, 6 o'clock News	Nicola Sturgeon, Katya Adler
Radio 4 (non-specific)	David Graeber, Michael Sandel, Eliane Glaser
Radio 4 Extra (non-specific)	Arnie Somogyi
Radio 5 Drive	Simon Walker, Anna Foster
R5 Pienaar's Politics	Jeremy Corbyn
Radio 5 (non-specific)	Nick Raynsford
Spectator	Adam Nicolson, Bruce Anderson, [Mehdi Hasan]
The Sun	editorial
Sunday Morning Live	Shami Chakrabarti
Sunday Politics	Caroline Flint, Tim Donovan, David Lammy
Today, Radio 4	Justin Webb, Bridget Kendall, Farage, Jon Sopel, Justin Webb again, Sanchia Berg, Sean Kemp
Top Gear	Jeremy Clarkson
Other:
Scottish Leaders' Debate	Sturgeon
Manifesto Launch	Nigel Farage
Acceptance speech	Julie Elliot
The written word	Tim Gordon

Newsnight OVot

Newsnight 28th Aug intro James O'Brien "ordinary voters".

Mr. O'Brien is a serial offender, see here and here.

R4 WatO Ordinary Chinese People

24th August R4 WatO, Edward Stourton and Jonty Bloom discussing the Chinese economic problems. Jonty,

"The problem is that 80% of investors in Chinese shocks and stares [sic] are ordinary Chinese people."

Image from Speakers Corner.

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#54 Sean Kemp, R4 Today

John Humphries and Sean Kemp discussed politicians and photo opportunities, prompted by an image of Putin in a mini submarine. The discussion turned to Cameron in particular and British politicians in general and how they cannot be seen to be travelling or living luxuriously . Two OPs deployed in quick succession by Sean,

"When they do try and sort of do the 'oh I'm being and ordinary person' thing they are not actually treated like an ordinary person,  they and do the like ordinary things like read the paper and have some crisps..."

It might be argued that it was correct usage in contrasting politicians and "ordinary people", but in this case Sean seemed to be accepting the distinction.

Image from the broadcast [which is strange for a radio programme].

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Newsnight OVot

Newsnight 18th Aug, Evan Davis (one of our earliest offenders, #2) used "ordinary voters" in the introductory sequence,

"What do ordinary voters in this key marginal [Nuneaton] make of Corbyn-omics"

Image from the broadcast.

R4 8:08 OWork

R4 Today 17th August, 8 o'clock news read by Diana Speed,

"New research has found that the average pay of a chief executive in leading UK companies is almost five million pounds, a hundred and eighty three times that of ordinary workers."

Image from the BBC.

R4 Sunday Worship OCit

A first capture from Sunday Worship. Broadcast from Lichfield Cathedral, introduced by The Very Rev'd Adrian Dorber, who said,

"Good Morning. This weekend the nation marks the 70th anniversary of VJ day, the end of World War Two. Yesterday this cathedral hosted a national service for the children and families of Far East prisoners of war. In today's worship we continue to remember prisoners of war who suffered and died at the hands of their cruel captors, but also the ordinary citizens of Japan who died in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki  before their rulers surrendered."

Image from English Cathedrals. 

R4 8:03 OJap Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

Saturday 15th August R4 Today at 8:03

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reporting from Japan on the 70th anniversary of the bombings and surrender,

"Even after 70 years August 15th is a day that Japan still struggles with. For the first time ever Japan's emperor Akihito expressed profound remorse for what had happened in a the war, a war that was fought in his father's name. But that stood in stark contrast to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who failed to use this anniversary to make his own fresh apology for Japan's actions At the Yasukuni shrine, tens of thousands of ordinary Japanese have been lining up to remember the two-and-a-half million who died. For most, there is nothing political about this, but among the crowd here are groups of men with crew-cuts, wearing paramilitary clothing and carrying imperial army flags. They march in and bow deeply, not only to the war dead, but also to the twelve Class-A war criminals whose spirits are also enshrined here. That includes the spirit of Hideki Tojo, the man who led Japan during the war and who these right-wingers still revere as a martyr."

Image from the BBC.

#53 Sanchia Berg on R4 Today

13th August, Radio 4 Today programme 38 mins in. Report on Latvian adoption case by Sanchia Berg.

"she now has some very significant support back in Latvia, not just from ordinary people but from Latvian MPs ..."

Image from Twitter.

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Radio 4 Today, Stephen Timms OUKC

August 11th, Radio 4 Today, 1hr 16mins in, discussing proposed benefit changes for migrants that would have to apply to those born here. Naughtie interviewing Stephen Timms, Shadow Minister for Employment. Mr Timms said,

"most people would find it unacceptable for ordinary UK citizens to be denied support because the government's EU renegotiation hasn't [tails off]... " and again "... most people would take the view that it wouldn't be acceptable for ordinary UK citizens to be badly hit because the governments renegotiation efforts haven't succeeded."

Image from  Wikipedia.

Sian Williams SML OWM

Sian Williams, Sunday Morning Live, 37 mins in, discussing should you give money to beggars, quoted Orwell,

"society despises beggars because people seem to feel there is some essential difference between them and ordinary working men they are a race apart, outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes..."

Image from the broadcast.

July Summary

Here are the Feb-Mar, April, May and June summaries.

July saw the milestones of 50 occurrences and 100 blog entries.

The quiet season began in late July with Daily Politics, Sunday Politics and Andrew Marr taking a break until September. Nevertheless, OPS are still to be found.

The July events were:

Hits

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
44	1st July	Melanie Phillips	Moral Maze
45	3rd July	Eliane Glaser	Four Thought
46	5th July	Jeremy Corbyn	R5 Pienaar's Politics
47	10th July	Andrew Neil	DPol
48	17th July	John Hayes	R4 PM
49	19th July	Dianne Abbot	AMarr
50	19th July	Shami Chakrabarti	SunMorLive
51	28th July	Anna Foster	R5 Drive
52	29th Jul7	Rev. Colin Coward	MMaze	100th bog

Near Misses

Date	Person	Occasion	Comments
1 Jul	Michael Buerk	MMaze	ordinary Greeks (twice)
5Jul	Andrew Marr	Eponymously	ordinary taxpayers
11Jul	Nicola Sturgeon	Spectator	ordinary folks, reported by Kate Chisholm in the radio review
12 Jul	n/k	Telegraph	ordinary Greeks
12 Jul	n/k	R5 discussing makeup/acne	ordinary girls
19 Jul	Pilgrim Tucker (Unite)	DPol	ordinary working people
20 Jul	Helen Goodman	R4 Today	ordinary families

Good Usage
Nothing new

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
40	11th June	David Lindo	Today	Used it nicely,
-	12th Jun	Katie Cutler	R4 World Tonight	Used it sweetly.
-	12th May	Andrew Neil	Daily Politics	adroit recovery
-	23rd May	Bruce Anderson	Spectator	good usage

Analysis of Sources

Source	Users
Andrew Marr Show	Ed Balls, Kristin Scott Thomas, Caroline Flint, Diane Abbot
Any Questions	Joanna Cherry
Big Questions	Kunle Olulode
Daily Politics	Frances O'Grady, Jonathan Isaby, Carole Malone, Shabana Mahmood, Giles Dilnot, IDS, Andrew Neil, Jon Trickett, Angela Eagle, Andrew Neil again
Front Row, Radio 4	John Wilson
Moral Maze	Ed Mayo, Paul Collier, Melanie Phillips, Colin Coward
Newsnight	Evan Davis, Peter Kellner, James O'Brien & Will Self, James O'Brien again
PM, Radio 4	Bridget Kendall, Norman Smith, John Hayes
Radio 4, 6 o'clock News	Nicola Sturgeon, Katya Adler
Radio 4 (non-specific)	David Graeber, Michael Sandel, Eliane Glaser
Radio 4 Extra (non-specific)	Arnie Somogyi
Radio 5 Drive	Simon Walker, Anna Foster
R5 Pienaar's Politics	Jeremy Corbyn
Radio 5 (non-specific)	Nick Raynsford
Spectator	Adam Nicolson, Bruce Anderson, [Mehdi Hasan]
The Sun	editorial
Sunday Morning Live	Shami Chakrabarti
Sunday Politics	Caroline Flint, Tim Donovan, David Lammy
Today, Radio 4	Justin Webb, Bridget Kendall, Farage, Jon Sopel, Justin Webb again
Top Gear	Jeremy Clarkson
Other:
Scottish Leaders' Debate	Sturgeon
Manifesto Launch	Nigel Farage
Acceptance speech	Julie Elliot
The written word	Tim Gordon

#52 Rev. Colin Coward on the Moral Maze

Moral Maze R4 29th July at 27:27, discussing hypocrisy, following the Lord Sewel scandal.  Giles Fraser questioned Rev. Colin Coward, ex-director of the pressure group Changing Attitude.

One of the best quotes yet,

"We are going to be healthier and more appropriate in our interactions and our effectiveness whether as politicians, ordinary people or christians the more that we are conscious when we are being hypocritical."

A fine spot for the 100th blog.

Image from CA's web site.

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YouGov

Two OPs in questions in a survey taken today.
No culprit to send a card to.

#51 Anna Foster R5 live Drive

Anna Foster discussing  the death sentence passed on Gaddafi's son, Saif, in Libya. 45 mins. in.

"How do ordinary people in Libya feel about this verdict?"

Image from the show's web site.

Audio clip.

A couple of milestones

The campaign has reached 50 occurrences and nearly 100 blog entries.

Time for a glass of port.

Image from here.

R4 Today OFam

Helen Goodman MP,  Radio 4 Today, 20th July, around 1:15 in. Discussing the budget, particularly tax credits and the candidates for the Labour leadership,

".. things we did because we were tuned in to ordinary families and their needs."

Image from Twitter.

OWP SPol

Sunday Politics on 19th July was mostly a hustings for the labour party leadership candidates, none of whom lapsed with an OP.

Later in the show (56 mins), when in turned to local news a piece on the housing crisis in London, including a comment from Pilgrim Tucker of Unite,

"We need homes for ordinary working people."

Image from the broadcast.

#50 Shami Chakrabarti ,Sunday Morning Live

Sunday Morning Live, 19th July, about 15 mins. in. A panel including Shami Chakrabarti discussing options for reducing sugar consumption, here a sugar tax,

"I'm not convinced that it's ordinary people, many of them quite poor, who should be penalised in that way."

Image from the broadcast.

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#49 Dianne Abbott, Andrew Marr Show

Dianne Abbott on the Andrew Marr Show, 19th July 13 mins. in.

Abbott, Philip Collins (The Times, formerly a speechwriter for Tony Blair) and AM discussing Jeremy Corbyn,

"It's about where ordinary people are."

Image from the broadcast.

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#48 John Hayes on PM

John Hayes, Security Minister at the Home Office, on PM Friday 17th July, about 5 mins. in, discussing "data collection and surveillance"

"I think ordinary people want the police, the agencies to have the powers to access information to protect vulnerable people in those kind of circumstances. Suicidal people, missing people in emergency situations, kidnap can lead to even more serious events, including the loss of life."

Readers and listeners will notice that these words do not make much sense.

Image from gov.uk. Not found on Twitter.

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Three near misses

R4 8am news, Sunday 12th July, reporting a Telegraph article referring to "ordinary Greeks".

In this week's Spectator (11th July),  Kate Chisholm's Radio review, discussion Sturgeon's ignorance of the women's world cup, "she revealed a surprising lack of nous, of  being out of touch with what 'ordinary folk' are interested in".

R5 Sunday, 12th July, 8:58pm discussing the makeup/acne debate, mentioned "ordinary girls".

#47 Andrew Neil, Daily Politics

Friday 10th July, Andrew Neil on Daily Politics, discussing the sins of the banks and the new taxes on the banks cosily with Louise Cooper, 21 mins in,

"...forced ordinary people to buy absurd products"

Mr. Neil is one of the few to use the phrase reasonably (or in his case apologetically), but not here.

Image from the show.

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#46 Jeremy Corbyn on Pienaar's Politics

R5, Pienaar's Politics 5th July, 54 mins in. Jeremy Corbyn,

"... Labour is a growing force in Britain, the Labour debate is a very, very interesting and a very important one and incredibly well-informed about the issues facing the ordinary people of England, Scotland and Wales."

Image from Twitter.

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Andrew Marr, ordinary taxpayers

Andrew Marr show, 5th July, 36 mins in, interviewing George Osborne,

"... we know why they [tax credits] were introduced, to encourage people back into work,  and you could say that's been successful: we have a relatively high level of employment in this country,  but they also mean ordinary taxpayers, the people you are describing at the moment, subsidising firms that are paying poverty wages."

#45 Eliane Glaser, Four Thought

R4 Four Thought, Eliane Glaser, discussing deference.

"Deference, we are constantly being told, is dead. Pedestals are crumbling, or at least it's now ordinary people who are placed on them, like in Antony Gormley's fourth plinth installation in Trafalgar Square"

Image from the BBC.

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June Summary

Here are the Feb-Mar, April and May summaries.

The June events were:

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
38	9th Jun	Angela Eagle	DPol
39	10th June	Paul Collier	MM
40	11th June	David Lindo	Today	Used it nicely,
-	12th Jun	Katie Cutler	R4 World Tonight	Used it sweetly.
41	13th Jun	Jon Sopel	Today
16b	15th Jun	Justin Webb	Today
42	19th June	Joanna Cherry	Any Questions
-	2010	Mehdi Hasan	New Statesman	Referenced by Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator.
43	29th Jun	Jeremy Clarkson	Top Gear	On his last show: seriously patronising.

Near misses:

Date	Person	Occasion	Comments
5th Jun		Front Row	ordinary citizens
8th Jun		Today	ordinary working men
24th Jun	Anthony Glees	Maral Maze	ordinary Muslim Mums and Dads
30th Jun	JoCo	Daily Politics	ordinary Greeks

Good users:

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
40	11th June	David Lindo	Today	Used it nicely,
-	12th Jun	Katie Cutler	R4 World Tonight	Used it sweetly.
-	12th May	Andrew Neil	Daily Politics	adroit recovery
-	23rd May	Bruce Anderson	Spectator	good usage
-	6th April	Peggy Seeger	Front Row	Correcting John Wilson

Analysis of sources:

Source	Users
Andrew Marr Show	Ed Balls, Kristin Scott Thomas, Caroline Flint,
Any Questions	Joanna Cherry
Big Questions	Kunle Olulode
Daily Politics	Frances O'Grady, Jonathan Isaby, Carole Malone, Shabana Mahmood, Giles Dilnot, IDS, Andrew Neil, Jon Trickett, Angela Eagle
Front Row, Radio 4	John Wilson
Moral Maze	Ed Mayo, Paul Collier
Newsnight	Evan Davis, Peter Kellner, James O'Brien & Will Self, James O'Brien again
PM, Radio 4	Bridget Kendall, Norman Smith
Radio 4, 6 o'clock News	Nicola Sturgeon, Katya Adler
Radio 4 (non-specific)	David Graeber, Michael Sandel
Radio 4 Extra (non-specific)	Arnie Somogyi
Radio 5 Drive	Simon Walker
Radio 5 (non-specific)	Nick Raynsford
Spectator	Adam Nicolson, Bruce Anderson, [Mehdi Hasan]
The Sun	editorial
Sunday Politics	Caroline Flint, Tim Donovan, David Lammy
Today, Radio 4	Justin Webb, Bridget Kendall, Farage, Jon Sopel, Justin Webb again
Top Gear	Jeremy Clarkson
Other:
Scottish Leaders' Debate	Sturgeon
Manifesto Launch	Nigel Farage
Acceptance speech	Julie Elliot
The written word	Tim Gordon

MM: Two OGreeks and One OPeople (#44)

Moral Maze 1st July on the Greek debt (what else?)

It all happened in the summing up Michael Buerk loosed two ordinary Greeks in one paragraph and then Melanie Phillips topped that with an ordinary people.

The next program up had one too.

Images from Wikipedia and Twitter.

Audio clips: Buerk Phillips.

JoCo, DPol, ordinary Greeks

30th Jun, Jo Coburn on Grexit, 6 mins in,

"... while on the streets of Athens this morning. ordinary Greeks expressed their both defiance and desperation."

Image from the broadcast.

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#43 Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear

28th June, Clarkson's final show, 20 mins in,

"I happen to know that when the Mazda MX5 Owners Club meet here for a track day, so just ordinary people, who are vets and teachers, they lap in 1.25 ..."

 Image from the show.

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Spectator, 20th June

In last week's Spectator, Dot Wordsworth discussed a recent Observer article on "speaking human": Ed Miliband's inability to do so and the necessity of the next Labour leader to have that ability. She observed that in 2010 Ed was praised in the New Statesman for his communication skills, she quotes,

 'Let us be clear: Ed M is not JFK,' wrote Mehdi Hasan in the New Statesman in [2010]. 'But he does have the all-important ability to connect with ordinary people.'

I guess it's a little late for a postcard.

Anthony Glees, Moral Maze, Ordinary Muslim Mums and Dads

Moral Maze, 24th June, on Islamic State Recruitment, about 17 mins in. The witness was Prof. Anthony Glees, UBucks, Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies,

'one reason there are fewer people going out now than there were last year is that many ordinary Muslim mums and dads are saying to their children, "you cannot go, you're out of your mind, this is not a wonderful gap year, this is the brutalisation of the human spirit."'

Image from UBucks.

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#42 Joanna Cherry on Any Questions

Joanna Cherry SNP MP, Any Questions 19th June, waxing incoherent on Greece.

"Clearly Greece has to pay back its debts, but the current proposals are making it impossible for Greece to do that and I don't think we can overlook the suffering of many ordinary Greek people as a result of the financial crisis that there is in Greece,"

Image from Twitter

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#16b Justin Webb, R4 Today

Monday 15th, Justin Webb, R4 Today @ 6:51.
Putting a rambling question to Shaimaa Khalil (Pakistan correspondent) about the Taliban, giving rise to an even more rambling answer,

"it's  had an extraordinary impact on ordinary people but not necessarily such a big impact on the Pakistani Taliban itself".

A second postcard for Justin, also caught on 27th March.

Image from Twitter.

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#41 Jon Sopel on Today

Saturday R4 Today programme @ 8:24
Jon Sopel reporting on Hilary Clinton and her efforts to be seen with ordinary people.

Image from Twitter.

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Katie Cutler uses it nicely

Friday 12th R4 The World Tonight discussing the Honours list, 33 mins. in.

Katie Cutler received a BEM for her charity work and spoke endearingly about it.

Image from the Telegraph.

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#40 David Lindo R4 Today

Radio 4's Today programme at 7.28 discussed a vote for a national British bird, organised by ornithologist David Lindo, and won by  the robin.

"the people that voted, the majority, about 60% were not connected to any of the birdwatching or conservation bodies so, in other words, a completely new audience: ordinary people who have no vested interest in nature."

Not patronising, no postcard.

Images from Twitter and the Telegraph.

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#39 Paul Collier on the Moral Maze

Professor Sir Paul Collier on the Moral Maze, discussing the boat people crossing from Libya, around 35 mins. in said,

"... the real struggle is within these countries. They need their young people with initiative and education to lift them out of poverty and so tempting the brightest and the best to leave their countries, tempting the doctors to leave Africa and come and practice in London is very nice for the doctors: it is not a great moral position for ordinary people in Africa. We shouldn't be celebrating that."

Image from Wikipedia.

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May Summary

Here are the Feb-Mar and Apr summaries.

In May we had:

#	Date	User	Occasion	Comments
22b	1st May	James O'Brien	Newsnight
29	5th May	IDS	Daily Politics	twice
30	7th May	Julie Elliot	acceptance speech
31	8th May	Nick Raynsford	R5
32		Tim Gordon	LibDem literature
33	12th May	Norman Smith	PM	twice
-	12th May	Andrew Neil	Daily Politics	adroit recovery
34	12th May	Simon Walker (IoD)	R5 Drive	3 times
35	15th May	John Trickett	Daily Politics
36	17th May	David Lammy	Sunday Politics	twice
-	19th May	Sue Perkins	R4 Dilemma	used ironically
37	25th May	Katya Adler	R4 News
-	23rd May	Bruce Anderson	Spectator	good usage

Near misses (some numbered in error):

#	Date	Person	Occasion	Comments
27	3rd May	Rafael Behr	R4 Westmister Hour	ordinary folk
28	5th May	Claire Fox	LBC Nick Ferrari show	ordinary British kids
-	6th May	Andrew Grice	R4 Media Show	ordinary voters
-	8th May	Jo Brand	HIGNFY	ordinary voters
	14th May	Len McClusky	Newsnight	real ordinary people
	17th May	Len McClusky	R4 Today
	21st May	Nigel Farage	R4 News	ordinary folk

Analysis of sources

Source	Users
Andrew Marr Show	Ed Balls, Kristin Scott Thomas, Caroline Flint,
Big Questions	Kunle Olulode
Daily Politics	Frances O'Grady, Jonathan Isaby, Carole Malone, Shabana Mahmood, Giles Dilnot, IDS, Andrew Neil, Jon Trickett
Front Row, Radio 4	John Wilson
Moral Maze	Ed Mayo,
Newsnight	Evan Davis, Peter Kellner, James O'Brien & Will Self, James O'Brien again
PM, Radio 4	Bridget Kendall, Norman Smith
Radio 4, 6 o'clock News	Nicola Sturgeon, Katya Adler
Radio 4 (non-specific)	David Graeber, Michael Sandel
Radio 4 Extra (non-specific)	Arnie Somogyi
Radio 5 Drive	Simon Walker
Radio 5 (non-specific)	Nick Raynsford
Spectator	Adam Nicolson, Bruce Anderson
The Sun	editorial
Sunday Politics	Caroline Flint, Tim Donovan, David Lammy
Today, Radio 4	Justin Webb, Bridget Kendall, Farage
Other:
Scottish Leaders' Debate	Sturgeon
Manifesto Launch	Nigel Farage
Acceptance speech	Julie Elliot
The written word	Tim Gordon