The Inspiring Top 5 — recent British poll

One of our speech spotters in the UK, Richard Cohen, spotted this poll that nudged its way into the national media there.

The poll question was ‘vote for the most powerful speech of all time’, but to be perfectly honest, it was tricky in the Daily Mail article to find much heft on how this content came to be, who conducted the survey, how many people voted, or what the question was.

It’s not impossible that the whole thing was dreamed into existence by a put upon Daily Mai…