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."

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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 ..."

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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."'

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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,"

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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

#38 Angela Eagle on Daily Politics

Angela Eagle, Labour Party Deputy Leader candidate on today's Daily Politics, 37 mins in.

A rather rambling and decidedly patronising response to a question on the LP's woes:

"... we can't as a movement that believes in ordinary people having the chance to make the best of their lives and the best opportunities spend our whole time blaming one another ..."

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R4 Today OWM

9th June 7:24 discussing a 'new' Arthur Miller play, based on an unused film script, "ordinary working men".

Front Row 5th June Ordinary Citizens

@7.22 discussing Greek Drama. Too long and pretentious to bother with an audio clip. Here's a programme link.