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The Conditions of our Culture
Professor Thomas Docherty
University of Warwick
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A useful opening frame for the argument I will advance here can be provided through two brief quotations. The first is from a 1934 novel by P. G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins, which opens by re-introducing us to Monty Bodkin, whom readers of Wodehouse had met the previous year, in Heavy Weather. As the novel opens, we see that:
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.1
Four decades later, in the real world of international relations in 1973, we find my second example. Leslie Fielding was the first UK Ambassador to what was then the European Economic Community (EEC), which the UK had just joined. Remembering his first days there, Fielding said that:
I spoke French all the time and it was OK… The problem was that it was twenty-four hours a day… The French language demands facial exertions different from those required when one mutters away in English with a clipped manner… My throat, cheeks and lips began to rebel after 8-10 hours of that.2
Between these two moments, we can see that there is an interesting relation betwee
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Thomas docherty mp biography
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Thomas Docherty
Thomas Docherty is a former communications consultant and Labour Party MP for Dunfermline and West Fife from May 2010 to May 2015.[1][2]He has also previously worked for Network Rail, BNFL and as a research assistant to Scott Barrie, the former MSP for Dunfermline West. [3]
He is PPS to Angela Eagle MP, Shadow Leader of the House.[3]
Previously on shortlist for Sellafield constituency
In early 2005, Docherty was part of an "all-PR" shortlist to become Labour candidate for the constituency of Copeland, which includes BNFL's Sellafield plant. The constituency was previously held by Jack Cunningham, a longstanding advocate of nuclear power. The other people on the shortlist were:
Reed was selected, and held the seat for Labour. Reporting the story shortly after the election, PR Week wryly observed: "What this can mean for the re-elected Labour government's commitment to pump billions into a raft of new nuclear power stations, we couldn't possibly say."[5]
However another of the PR men on the shortlist, Stu
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