#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.

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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?"

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A couple of milestones

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

Time for a glass of port.

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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."

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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."

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#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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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"

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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.

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