Educating Charlene

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An "article" by Damian Thompson, "editor" of Telegraph Blogs

OK, so perhaps it’s unfair to expect tidy prose from a hard-pressed NHS doctor. But it turns out that Eoin is only “Dr” thanks to a PhD thesis on Irish women’s history from Queen’s University Belfast. I bet that’s a grisly read, particularly if it adopts the mangled syntax of his blog.

Incidentally, why do Lefties with PhDs set such store by being called “doctor”? (Dr John Reid, Dr Vince Cable, Dr Jack Cunningham, etc.) Eoin even has it in his Twitter handle. It’s quite sweet, really.

And that there is why I will never be a Torygraph reader.

Here is Dr Éoin Clarke’s reply.

Filed under history so no one's allowed the title 'dr' unless they're a medical doctor?? academia torygraph telegraph