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I like todays Independent cartoon, also on a side note: the 30 year secret rule is changed to 20. But can't release all 10 years in one time as it takes forever so every year untill its down to 20 they will be releasing 2 years of secrets instead of 1.
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Fluo posted:I like todays Independent cartoon, also on a side note: the 30 year secret rule is changed to 20. But can't release all 10 years in one time as it takes forever so every year untill its down to 20 they will be releasing 2 years of secrets instead of 1. And by secrets we mean awful poo poo even the selfish fuckheads in charge are embarrassed by. As if the 80s didn't seem bad enough by what we already have in the public record  God I can't even begin to imagine how awful the 2020s is going to feel once we all learn what Blair was really saying behind closed doors...
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Aug 2, 2013 01:36
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Lord of the Llamas posted:God I can't even begin to imagine how awful the 2020s is going to feel once we all learn what Blair was really saying behind closed doors... You're expecting surprises? I like Ben Jennings's style, if I knew anything about art I'm sure I'd have a better reference, but it reminds me of the land of the living sequence in Grim Fandango  
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Aug 2, 2013 01:54
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It doesn't get that much media attention, but they're constantly talking in the second house about how to winnow down the peers. They can't just depeer everyone who hasn't shown up in half a year, because that would leave the the hoards who attend faithfully but still never do anything. A lord who was more openly greedy than most suggested he would gladly retire if the government would cut him a cheque, to which the government responded it'd rather wait for him to loving die. It's a problem that will solve itself in my opinion. In a couple more years it'll be like Hillsborough in there.
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Aug 2, 2013 02:05
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Lord of the Llamas posted:And by secrets we mean awful poo poo even the selfish fuckheads in charge are embarrassed by. As if the 80s didn't seem bad enough by what we already have in the public record It can't be worse than what he was saying in the open. I like the drop to 20 years. It increases the chance that an evil oval office will still be in some form of office when what he's done comes to light.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:51
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From the If... archives The Falklands War is over. News of the victory reaches HMS Incredible, while Harry Hardnose returns to Britain with column inches to fill and charity for an extremely deserving case...         (Ref: Social Democratic Party)
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Aug 3, 2013 11:02
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e: Cloud Potato is better at this than I am, how could I leave out Stephen Collins? 
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Aug 3, 2013 12:35
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Twitter and the Home Office's crackdown on illegal immigration – The Home Office has found itself at the centre of a Twitter storm amid mounting criticism of its tactics to crack down on illegal immigration" Telegraph:  Italy ex-PM Berlusconi in angry tirade at jail ruling Independent:  Stephen Collins: 
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Aug 3, 2013 12:38
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Yesterday's Observer: "The Tories and the 'desolate' north - Chris Riddell on an energy policy that suggests vote-losing fracking should be avoided in the south" Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph:  Guardian:  "Martin Rowson on the British embassy in Yemen – Foreign Office says British embassy closed as precautionary measure as US issues global travel alert" Telegraph:  Zimbabwe President Mugabe re-elected amid fraud claims. Independent: 
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Aug 5, 2013 00:33
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I wonder if Cameron will ever end up transformed into some... creature of terror by Rowson. You can't really call his Blair a caricature, it's a description that totally misses the point. Nice bit of patronising the ex-colonies there from Adams. Ha ha stupid naive Tsvangirai, Mugabe was obviously going to steal the election again, but you trusted him! Africans and their 'politics' am I right 
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Aug 5, 2013 00:46
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: Cloud Potato posted:Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph:
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Aug 5, 2013 08:26
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baka kaba posted:Nice bit of patronising the ex-colonies there from Adams. Ha ha stupid naive Tsvangirai, Mugabe was obviously going to steal the election again, but you trusted him! Africans and their 'politics' am I right I think you're being a bit hypercritical. Is a white western journalist essentially forbidden from commenting on African current events ? Under the circumstances, I think that cartoon is just about perfect with the single exception of his feeling the need to label the ball "Elections" in the first frame. I'm not one of those GNNNNNNNNLAAAAAABELLLZ people, but that seemed wholly uneccesary in this case.
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Aug 5, 2013 11:20
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It's more the patronising tone aimed at Tsvangirai, as though he's some trusting credulous idiot instead of someone with direct and very personal experience of running against Mugabe and the consequences of doing so. There's a fair amount of political calculus involved in deciding whether to take part in unfair elections and how to proceed afterwards, a lot of people are putting themselves at risk by taking this forward, and Tsvangirari has been on the news a lot lately answering questions on exactly this subject. So to see all that ignored and recast as naive Charlie Brown antics, where Adams knows Mugabe will cheat but Tsvangirai (his long-time political rival and the prime minister of the country) is clueless and gullible, it comes across as pretty drat patronising yeah
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Aug 5, 2013 14:39
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Charlie Brown knows that Lucy will cheat, the question is always what will he tell himself to shake off his nihilism and try to kick the ball. Given the depressive, cagey interviews I heard Zimbabweans giving before the election, it's quite the apt metaphor.
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Aug 5, 2013 17:13
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on zero-hour contracts – Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests" Telegraph:  World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London. Independent:  Mail:  quote:'But if we're both working, who'll look after the kids? says mum...I've got an idea, says dad.'
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Aug 6, 2013 00:25
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on rising executive salaries at foreign aid charities – Research shows number of bosses on six-figure salaries at 14 leading charities has risen by nearly 60% in past three years" Telegraph:  Independent:  Killer dogs' owners in England and Wales could face life in prison Mail: "Some heads of charities are earning well over £100.000 a year."  quote:“Be patient, baby. There are hungry charity executives at the front of the queue.”
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Aug 7, 2013 00:43
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Willikers, a black person without coal skin OR honking red lips. Truly Mac is a paragon of tolerance.
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Aug 7, 2013 00:47
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Charities just as poo poo as the rest of the private sector? Colour me shocked :O
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Charities just as poo poo as the rest of the private sector? Colour me shocked :O But I want to have low taxes so I can give cash to charities so I feel like a special snowflake and not helping people in general by paying my taxes! :bonosay:
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail:  Fakeedit: Unless it's just Mac's view that black people in Africa are okay, it's the ones over here he doesn't like 
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I'm still amazed that Mac produced something that wasn't superbly awful.
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Aug 7, 2013 10:57
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Kegluneq posted:This is very much 'a thing that happened', but it's still legitimately A Good Cartoon. It's weird, it's really poe's law with MAC, he's kind of like Melanie Phillips, who cry about how our government gives Foreign Aid (which is less then 1% of the tax annually. So you get articles like this from the Daily Heil (there is about 50 or so but you get the idea, also don't want them to get page views RIP DailyVeil, for some time now it just redirects to Daily Mail  ).And only 2 hours ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23599140 quote:Godfrey Bloom on 'bongo bongo land' and UK foreign aid. 
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Aug 7, 2013 10:59
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Bongo Bongo Land wastes all aid given to them on the national football team
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the new Bank of England governor - Mark Carney has signalled that Britain's ultra-low interest rates would remain unchanged until well after the 2015 general election" Telegraph:  Independent:  Express: 
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Aug 8, 2013 00:22
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: The cartoonist is in the forums But who? 
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Aug 8, 2013 01:07
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That bird was tough as nails to spot.
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McDowell posted:The cartoonist is in the forums But who? Hi Paul. I claim my five pounds.
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Came across this analysis of Express front pages that I thought the thread would enjoy.
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Aug 8, 2013 12:52
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Bah! Guess I was wrong. Guardian:  "Ben Jennings on Cameron's £500m A&E bailout - David Cameron has announced £500m to help accident and emergency departments deal with increasing numbers" Telegraph:  Boycott websites which don't tackle abuse, says Cameron Independent:  Express:  Isle of Wight's Royal Yacht Squadron to allow women members
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Aug 9, 2013 00:34
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That poor fox
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Aug 9, 2013 02:02
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Is there a particular reason Steve bell hasn't made a cartoon in about two weeks now? Is he on sabbatical?
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Aug 9, 2013 02:49
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Cloud Potato posted:Bah! Guess I was wrong.  quote:Telegraph: quote:Express:
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LP97S posted:Is there a particular reason Steve bell hasn't made a cartoon in about two weeks now? Is he on sabbatical? He pretty much always takes silly season off as holiday.
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Kegluneq posted:Kind of feel like a Demon's Souls reference would be better there but no Telegraph reader would get that.
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Aug 9, 2013 11:55
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What is the reference anyway? It looks like the Marble Hill Zone from Sonic and Cameron's looking a bit like the guy from Ghouls and Goblins. Also Bob's pixelized his own name.
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Mr. Squishy posted:What is the reference anyway? It looks like the Marble Hill Zone from Sonic and Cameron's looking a bit like the guy from Ghouls and Goblins. Also Bob's pixelized his own name. Looks like Wonder Boy to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69miqZr0qc
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Aug 9, 2013 12:54
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Mr. Squishy posted:What is the reference anyway? It looks like the Marble Hill Zone from Sonic and Cameron's looking a bit like the guy from Ghouls and Goblins. Also Bob's pixelized his own name. The reference is Them Video Games On The Gogglebox
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the Conservative agenda" Telegraph:  Independent:  Gibraltar row: Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy hopeful about talks. After Clarkson Stanfield.  Stephen Collins:  
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: How many horrible stereotypes can you spot? (also the CND logo, may as well smear another campaign while we're at it)
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Stop walking hippies, you obviously caused that earthquake yourselves.
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