Wales on Sunday’s Matt Withers takes the BBC’s John Pienaar to task for allegedly getting the name of Plaid Cymru’s leader in the Welsh Assembly wrong:
It’s not too often that Plaid Cymru get much coverage on a UK-wide level, so they must have been pleased to hear their conference being discussed on Radio 5 Live’s Weekend News last Sunday night.
It was an in-depth discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing the party as they go into the general election – and really, a feature which could only have been improved had presenter John Pienaar got the party leader’s name right just once.
It’s Ieuan Wyn Jones, John. Not just Wyn Jones.
I have known Mr Jones since the late 1970s, when we worked together in a Ruthin law firm. He was always known as plain Wyn to all the members of staff.
What’s more, I still call him Wyn.
And, more importantly, so does his wife. Or, at least, she did the last time I spoke to him.
