Category Archives: politics

The cult murders of Shinzo Abe and Hello Kitty

Shinzo Abe, former PM, departed this earth as any politician would want to depart this earth: in a hail of bullets (or a hail of one bullet) with his shiny shoes on, next to his flunkies, spouting platitudes on the … Continue reading

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Death is the new smart financial move 

So, Paul McCartney played Glastonbury the other day and became, at 80, the oldest person to do so. It’s all right for some — we can’t all afford to live to be 80. I look at those photos of Macca … Continue reading

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Putin’s big table

Putin’s big table. Tweaked version: #cartoonart #cartoon #art #drawing #illustration #digitalart #artist #artwork #cartoons #artistsoninstagram #sketch #cartoonist #cartoondrawing  #draw #digitaldrawing #comicart #digitalillustration #artoftheday #cartoonstyle  #illustrator #comics #doodle #cartoonartist #drawings #doodle #ukraine #putin #putinsbigtable #notowar #ukrainewar 

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Let’s get this straight: Unravelling the complicated convolutions of current goings on with added buckets of wine

So, let’s try to get this straight because it’s getting a bit complicated now Members of the UK government, including the actual prime minister broke lockdown laws that they themselves made by having parties at No.10, driving to Durham while … Continue reading

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Labour’s limp rag

When you have no real ideas, drape yourself in the flag.

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The behind the scenes deals that seal no deal

Of course there’s no deal. There was never meant to be a deal.  The talk, the manoeuvring, the posturing, the negotiations have been an elaborate pantomime, a pretence at getting a deal because no deal was what Johnson and his … Continue reading

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Should we make the European flag illegal?

So, Brexiteers are arguing it should be illegal to fly the European flag from now on, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment.  I wonder how we should respond to that.

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Let the healing begin? No, let’s not

Let the healing begin, Boris Johnson says. No, let the healing not begin. What healing can there be? This election was won on a campaign of outright lies, misinformation, and smears. It was the dirtiest campaign in generations. It is … Continue reading

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An Etonian wank fest: those Cummings and goings on

Of course, what we all want now is for Dominic Cummings to be caught in flagrante in a sex-death act so bizarre and depraved that it’s details, immediately leaked to the world, will smother the Tory cabinet in reflected slime … Continue reading

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