Herne Bay Cartoon Festival © Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
I was sorry to have to miss the Duchamp in Herne Bay Cartoon Events today. Read all about it at the Procartoonists.org/blog. I should add you can give yourself a chance of winning a signed Ralph Steadman cartoon by tweeting #DuchampHB today between 1 and 5pm.
The drawing above, a hat tip to Kasia Kowlaska, Kowalska whose name I unforgivably twice spelled incorrectly.
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Winchester Cathedral has received a heritage lottery grant towards its upkeep and also to investigate mortuary chests believed to hold the remains of six saxon monarchs. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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Former Oil Executive and new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby plans to bring the Church of England into competition with the burgeoning short term borrowing industry.
The context for this eye catching event is the legacy of private debt in the UK – this has been typically estimated to be five times as big as the public debt which preoccupies the chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne.
The problem of credit and debt appears to be being passed away from the banks which cannot, it appears, be entirely trusted with attending to our personal and business borrowing needs.
Updated 26th July: By 7pm on the day the Archbishop went public with his thoughts (following the interview with Total Politics Magazine) The Financial Times discovered that The Church of England has investment in a third-party who fund Wonga.com.
The inevitable ‘public embarrassment’ interview was conducted on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning. You can read some of the listeners responses here.
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The Prime Minister has launched an eye-catching initiative with which he can be personally associated for the summer holidays. You can read about what is understood of the details, here. Regrettably, he appears to be suggesting a clumsy technical solution to a complex social and economic issue – distributed pornography – which exists on a global stage.
The cartoon, above, references the ongoing and many investigations into the revelations following the exposure of Jimmy Savile as a paedophile.
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Winner of the 100th anniversary Tour de France.
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There is outrage about the pay increases for the executive team for the recently merged NHS trusts in north and central Hampshire. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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The minister responsible for reform of the social security system in the UK and the institution of a universal benefits cap. Here he is interviewed about it on the Radio 4 Today show.
Visitors from Mars at present would be forgiven for thinking the National Health Service was not long for its own deathbed.
The propaganda wars about, let’s face it, the ideological inclinations and practical needs of the rich and the poor are being argued throughout the land. The resulting and inevitable compromise is likely to be uncomfortable for all.
In spite of this prospect, it is good to know that a majority of people in the country believe the taxpayer services provided do more good than harm*. Here’s a nice story to that effect from the Hampshire Chronicle which provided the cartoon above.
• Imagine how it might be if the Revenue was able (or, allowed) to collect the tax due it by global corporations who are active in business in the UK.
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The link is to an FT comment defining the argument as the battle Miliband cannot afford to lose.
This public promise, assuming it can be delivered, is an important moment because of the problem it also poses for the Conservative party and its own rather more opaque sources of funding.
The second link is to a Bureau of Investigative Journalism report into sources of Conservative Party Funding.
And for fun, here’s a fine old story about this very long-lived problem.
Updated 29th July 2013: Latest statistics on party political fundraising from the Electoral Commission covering 2012 and Q1 of 2013.
