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.

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

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.

Less Ordinary

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

MM: Two OGreeks and One OPeople (#44)

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