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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