Category Archives: Cartoons

The Times guilt-trip their readers with a cartoon of starving children

11:15am Thu July 21st

As the phone hacking scandal rumbles on to the dismay of News Corporation, there was speculation that Tory backbenchers had been primed by the whips to say that the public want MPs to move on to other issues, and Louise Mensch attempted to deflect the attention to Piers Morgan by taking quotes in his book out of context.

But the third and most tasteless prong of resistance has come from a graphic in The Times depicting children in Somalia, suggesting that talking about phone hacking has prolonged their starvation.

No one is stopping The Times covering both stories.

Super Injunction: The Movie

12:16pm Sat May 21st

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Philistines can visit Wikipedia for the reference.

Nick Clegg confirms the death of the Liberal Democrats

2:11pm Fri May 6th

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Hat-tip: @BeauBodOr

Those Liberal Democrat Spring conference policies in full

8:58am Mon March 14th

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Who said Clegg was vane?

EDM Watch: Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell love The Hoff

2:54pm Thu February 17th

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With a grand total of more than 1,900 between them, do Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell put their names to every EDM going? Here is the latest batch of “parliamentary graffiti” to bear their signatures:

DAVID HASSELHOFF AND MORECAMBE WINTER GARDENS

That this House notes that David Hasselhoff visited the precincts of the House on 8 February 2011; further notes that he pledged his support for the reopening of Morecambe Winter Gardens; believes that this demonstrates the international significance of the Winter Gardens; further believes that reopening them would reinstate an important part of the UK’s heritage and bring vital regeneration to the town of Morecambe; and wishes Mr Hasselhoff good luck in his participation in Britain’s Got Talent and in his other projects in the UK.

Or perhaps they’re closet Baywatch fans?

Larry the Downing Street Lolcat

1:58pm Tue February 15th

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Call us cynics, but perhaps the release of Larry the rat-catching moggy on the same day as inflation statistics isn’t a coincidence.

A good day to bury bad news?

ITV commissions "I'm Hosni Mubarak, Get Me Out Of Here!"

7:58pm Tue February 1st

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Ant and Dec are currently negotiating their fee with the CIA.

Daily Mail compares gay couples to Nazis

3:33pm Wed January 19th

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Few will be surprised by the Daily Mail today, supporting the right of business owners to discriminate against gay couples after a court ruled in favour of civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy, who were denied a bed in a B&B by the owners. Many won’t even be surprised by the Orwell-referencing headline of: “Now some people are more equal than others”.

Even so, Scrapbook can’t quite believe the cartoon today:

No, it’s not that they’re depicting the gay couple as big scary bikers. It’s that the couple are tattooed with swastikas:

Now, as open-minded as we are, even we can understand why you might feel uneasy about Nazis staying in your B&B. But now, with this ruling you’ll have to let in every big, scary, angry, probably violent, neo-Nazi, biker gay couple who turn up up on your doorstep demanding a room.

No wonder this country’s going to the dogs, eh?

Hat-tip: Avid Daily Mail reader Seph Brown.

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