Less Ordinary

I am irritated by (mostly) politicians and (also) media-types referring to "ordinary people". I don't mind being a regular, normal, ordinary chap, but when they wield it, the phrase comes with the patronising implication that they are somehow better than ordinary. And as we have seen for a long time and especially in recent years, many politicians in particular and journalists in general tend to range from 'ordinary' downwards. I log occurrences here and send offenders a postcard.

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Monday, 17 August 2015

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.