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Guardian: "Billy B on Rishi Sunak’s first day back – The prime minister considers a reset after seeing Keir Starmer glittered at conference" Meanwhilst: Steve Bell speaks out after being sacked by email following 40 years at Guardian Telegraph:  We still have a path to independence referendum, claims SNP deputy Times:  Pop-up cells in jail yards to end overcrowding Evening Standard: 
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Joe Biden’s visit to Israel – The US president embarked on a high-stakes mission amid escalating tensions in the Middle East" Telegraph:  Sunak’s inflation pledge goes down to the wire after petrol price shock Independent:   Times:  Evening Standard:  Sunak starts two-day Middle East trip in Israel as he calls for calm
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Oct 19, 2023 17:21
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Guardian: "Ben Jennings on the information war – The BBC has received 1,500 complaints over its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war – split 50-50 from each side" Telegraph:  Biden tells Israel: Don’t repeat our mistakes after 9/11 Independent:  Times:  King laments ‘international turmoil and heartbreaking loss of life’ Evening Standard:  England must believe and impose ourselves on South Africa, insists Maro Itoje in Rugby World Cup rallying cry; Storm Babet to hit England after woman swept into river dies in Scotland Stephen Collins: 
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Oct 20, 2023 17:58
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on US attempts to stop the Israel-Hamas war widening – Joe Biden has urged Benjamin Netanyahu not to make the mistakes the US did after 9/11" Also! "Can political cartoons survive in an age of sensitivity?" - Alan Rusbridger Telegraph:  ‘Political earthquake’ as Tories lose two major seats in by-elections The i paper:  "By-election disaster shows no seat is safe for the Conservatives as Starmer gets closer to No 10" Times:  Rishi Sunak renews plea for Gaza aid during visit to Egypt
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Observer: "The elephants in the room with Rishi Sunak – Reasons for the Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth byelection losses seem to be a mystery to the prime minister" Sunday Telegraph:  Sycamore Gap tree trunk being cut up and moved from Hadrian’s Wall Sunday Times:  gently caress Off Mac: 
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Oct 22, 2023 17:27
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diaf mac
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Guardian: "Ben Jennings on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza – Civilians and Hamas militants alike have no escape as Gaza awaits Israel’s expected ground invasion" Telegraph:  Times:  Evening Standard: 
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Oct 23, 2023 17:43
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Of course, the SNP, whose last 5 leaders have been a fat bald man, a skinny bald man, the fat bald man again, a woman and an Asian man, represented by a ginger. gently caress off Blower you lazy hack. How does this oval office still get work and Steve Bell is unemployable?
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The same way Mac is still employed. The Telegraph does not care about anything happening outside of, or directly influencing, a tory seat; offending the people who would vote for another party is beneath concern.
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Guardian: "Ella Baron on London protests over the Israel-Hamas war – Demonstrations by people concerned about the welfare of hostages and of Gazan people have taken place separately in the British capital" Also Tube driver criticised for leading ‘free Palestine’ chant on Underground train Telegraph:  Police resist demands to respond to every case of shoplifting Matt:  Police under fire for allowing ‘jihad’ chant at protest Times:  Gaza protests: No 10 defies Met chief’s call for new police powers Evening Standard:  No plans for more police powers over ‘jihad’ chants as Braverman meets Met chief David Squires:  Sir Bobby Charlton obituary
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s big year – On 24 October 2022, Sunak became the leader of the Conservative party. A day later, he became prime minister" Telegraph:  Rishi Sunak marks first anniversary as Prime Minister with cake and labrador mug Matt:  UK weather: Storm Babet flood areas set to be submerged again with more downpours this week Independent:  No plans for more police powers over ‘jihad’ chants, signals Sunak Times:  Evening Standard:  More than 150 Labour councillors sign letter demanding Keir Starmer calls for Gaza ceasefire
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Guardian: "Nicola Jennings on Monday’s Hamas hostage release – Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, shook hands with her Hamas guard upon her release" Telegraph:  World must 'buckle up' for higher interest rates, warns IMF boss Matt:  Independent:  Times:  Labour fears frontbench resignations over Gaza Evening Standard:  Remembrance poppies go plastic-free
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Guardian: "Ben Jennings on the Israel-Hamas war – Israel continues to bomb Gaza in response to the massacre by Hamas" Bonus! Byline Times:  Telegraph:  Rishi Sunak warns of ‘new dangers’ from AI as robot tax mulled to protect jobs Matt:  Independent:  Keir Starmer warned he risks ‘plunging party into crisis’ amid backlash over Labour’s stance on Israel Times:  Guardian Australian Sport: 
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on escalating violence in the Middle East – ‘Soon many more will die’ in the Gaza siege, the United Nations has warned" Telegraph:  Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow Matt:  Nigel Farage dismisses report into NatWest account closure as ‘whitewash’ Independent:  After Ernst Eisenmayer. The i paper:  "Gaza challenges Starmer’s iron grip" Times:  AI could help terrorists develop bioweapons, report warns
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Observer: "Is Joe Biden’s plan for peace too little, too late? – With Gaza in flames and the rest of the Middle East a powder keg, the president is acting slowly" Sunday Telegraph:  "How dull is too dull? The questions surrounding Keir Starmer" "...The metaphor that Roy Jenkins used to describe Tony Blair’s task of getting into power in 1997 of a man “carrying a priceless Ming vase about a highly polished floor” has been so over-used one feels the vase has already cracked after being held so tightly for so very long. ..." Matt:  Sunday Times:  Keir Starmer’s authority threatened as frontbenchers demand Gaza ceasefire Mail on Sunday:  Banning China from the UK's AI summit would make no sense, writes former head of GCHQ's national cyber security centre CIARAN MARTIN
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Daleks are not robots!
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Guardian: "Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s election countdown – There has been speculation in some quarters that after a harrowing year, the prime minister is planning a Halloween 2024 general election" Telegraph:  Sunak ramps up spending on AI chips to £400m Times:  Emergency Cobra meeting to address ‘accelerated’ terror threat in UK Evening Standard:  "The Standard View: Keir Starmer's big test on Israel, Gaza and party unity"
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Oct 31, 2023 19:18
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Sunak and Starmer’s blinkered views on Gaza – Sacking and suspension await Tory and Labour MPs who won’t toe party lines on the Israel-Hamas conflict" Telegraph:  Dominic Cummings derided ministers as ‘morons’ and ‘f— pigs’ as pandemic unfolded Matt:  Independent:  Times:  Evening Standard:  Elon Musk: AI could pose existential risk if it becomes ‘anti-human’; Storm Ciaran on way to UK with ‘danger to life’ amber weather warnings
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Guardian: "Ella Baron on the UK’s Covid inquiry – Boris Johnson’s handling of the pandemic has come in for fierce criticism this week" Telegraph:  Politics latest news: AI firms must hand over models for testing, Sunak says Matt:  Independent:  Starmer battles to maintain Labour discipline over Israel-Hamas war Times:  Evening Standard:  Keir Starmer's Gaza problem: Grassroots anger simmers at Labour leader's stance on Israel-Hamas war; School closures, power cuts and travel chaos as 100mph Storm Ciaran strikes
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Pretty bad showing today, only the Indie and the Standard have anything resembling a position that isn't either offensively boring or offensively racist.
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Nov 2, 2023 19:35
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Brooks and Blower can eat my poo poo and hair tbh.
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Nov 3, 2023 00:44
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Brookes in particular can eat every ounce of poo poo ever produced on this earth.
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Nov 3, 2023 00:51
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Both fairish and yet unfair to not leave any poo poo for Blower and Matt to eat.
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It does feel like we're at a nadir for political cartoons at the moment. Honestly feels like a New Yorker daily cartoon could up the average quality.
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i only really found Bell's funny :/
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...which makes me realise that once again Cloud Potato it's really appreciated that you're keeping up your consistency. I sometimes tune out of political cartoons out of depression but I really do appreciate you keeping this going in rain or shine. You're a legend.
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yeah  i'd never see them if not for this thread
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Thank you for the kind words.  Guardian:  "Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s AI summit – The British prime minister holds a global gathering at Bletchley Park about how to regulate artificial intelligence" Telegraph:  Elon Musk tells Sunak AI will mean people no longer need to work Matt:  Watch: Storm Ciaran sweeps away cars as five people die in Italy Independent:  The last Beatles song: How artificial intelligence brought the Fab Four together one final time Times:  Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson says it was his duty to mull over lockdown; Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia Evening Standard:  Stephen Collins: 
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s meeting with Elon Musk – The prime minister met the owner of X, formerly Twitter, for a conversation about AI this week" Telegraph:  Jeremy Hunt to recommit to tight spending plans in Autumn Statement Matt:  Independent:  Boris Johnson asked if blowing hairdryer up nose could kill Covid, says ex-aide Cummings; After Josef Munsch. The i paper:  Times:  Matt Hancock insisted on deciding who should live and die, Covid inquiry told
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Observer: "Rishi Sunak displays his astonishing incompetence (AI for short) – Presented with the evidence of the Covid inquiry, the prime minister looks to the future" Sunday Telegraph:  "Dominic Cummings can’t take responsibility for his own failures" Matt:  Sunday Times:  Mail on Sunday:  “Oh my God, you’re right Rishi. It’s Nadine Dorries! We shouldn’t have tried to ban her book”
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I like how Sunak and Gove are apparently portrayed as being too weak or cowardly to handle a woman who is, at best, too hungover to put up a fight.
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I like how Gove is the one talking about what's in the cellar despite Sunak being the one peering around the corner, presumably because Sunak was easier to caricature from behind.
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Guardian: "Ella Baron on social media and the war in Gaza – Four weeks into the conflict, Instagram and Facebook are awash with images of suffering" Telegraph:  Pro-Palestine rally set to go ahead on Remembrance weekend Times:  Rishi Sunak latest to disavow Suella Braverman on homelessness Evening Standard:  Sadiq Khan leads Susan Hall by 50% to 25% among Londoners in race for City Hall
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Guardian: "Ben Jennings on the king’s speech and oil and gas licences – Tuesday sees the Conservatives’ policy announcement on the North Sea" Telegraph:  Watch: Just Stop Oil protesters smash National Gallery painting Matt:  Times:  What is in the King’s Speech 2023? The 21 policies explained Evening Standard:  David Squires: 
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the king’s speech – King Charles has delivered his first king’s speech, and outlined Rishi Sunak’s government’s plans for the coming year" Telegraph:  "Take away that pudding – it has no theme." is a Winston Churchill quote, apparently. Matt:  Independent:  Times:  Evening Standard:  Imran Hussain: Shadow minister quits Labour front bench over Keir Starmer's stance on Gaza
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Guardian: "Rishi Sunak’s time is up by Ella Baron – Keir Starmer counts down as the prime minister reveals his last-gasp king’s speech" Telegraph:  "Starmer’s Gaza test has only just begun" Matt:  "Has Nadine Dorries lost the plot? Her bizarre book blames Boris’s fall on ‘Dr No’ and ‘the Wolf’" Independent:  Times:  Israel to pause Gaza bombing for four hours each day Evening Standard:  Sack Suella Braverman, Sunak urged as Home Secretary ignites police protests 'bias' storm; John Lewis Christmas advert 2023 review: a Little Shop of Ho-ho-ho rings in this newly established tradition Guardian Australian Sport: 
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Guardian: "Suella Braverman’s leadership ambitions by Ben Jennings – The home secretary has tried to co-opt Armistice Day while attacking those who live in tents, but 5% of London’s homeless population are veterans" Telegraph:  Rishi Sunak faces calls to sack Suella Braverman amid claims she has ‘lost it’ Matt:  Independent:  Times:  Evening Standard:  London must pull together: Poppy Day unity plea as thousands prepare to protest in capital Stephen Collins: 
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Guardian: "Ella Baron on the policing of the protest march on Armistice Day – The Metropolitan police has resisted political pressure to ban a pro-Palestine march in London on Saturday" Telegraph:  "Police must be allowed space to make difficult operational decisions" Matt:  Dame Alison Rose forfeits £7.6m as NatWest scraps bonus and share awards Independent:  After Dali. The i paper:  Times: 
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