Click the picture to watch the video © Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons for Channel 4 News in 2008
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Speed drawing from the television.
Arc de Tony (Blair)© Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
Former prime Minister Tony Blair has been named in court at the phone hacking trial as offering personal advice to the former Chief Executive of News International Rebekah Brooks.
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Notable book published on the great British housing disaster by academic Danny Dorling with whom I have had some dealings in the past.
The hashtag #ukhousing on twitter is often informative about this vexed subject and its close connections with the sickly national economy.
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Sketching from the BBC television discussion show broadcast on 13th February 2014.
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In the wake of the catastrophic flooding in south west and southern England during January and early February here’s a very useful fisking of the government’s claims about maintained and uncut spending on flood prevention at the FT (registration required).
The cartoon was originally drawn in 2007 during the last great floods and in it I attempted to draw attention to the paradox in HMG’s attention depending upon where the victims of flooding lived.
Serious flooding on the Thames and in the ‘Greater South East’ isn’t dismissable for any government because it is too easy for the, er, mainstream media to reach it.
Updated – 13th February 2014: That’s why there are SO many pictures of politicians and broadcast television presenters standing in deep puddles presently.
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The campaigning ahead of the autumn referendum on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom has started. The figureheads for the respective Yes and No campaigns are Alastair Darling, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland.
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Lloyds and Muggins – the partly nationalised bank may be for sale in the markets before the next election. To no one’s great surprise.
It’s also choosing to cut its provision of local advisors to Small and Medium enterprise (SMEs) aka taxpayers or shareholders. People may, of course, easily be all three of these categories.
