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The crisis of global debt continues and it is presently manifesting itself with most vigor inside the financial union of the EU. It reminds of an old pan-european televised entertainment – Jeux Sans Frontières. Britain is, typically, pretending not to play while of course being intimately involved. Ireland, Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal are all more obviously upon the slippery carousel.
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The relationship between politicians and corporate lobbyists has always been controversial and the revelations from the long-running Leveson Inquiry do not show it in a flattering light. The drawing above features Frédéric Michel, the senior lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch’s News International and Adam Smith, special adviser to Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. Smith’s boss and the minister in situ, Jeremy Hunt, held responsibility for dealing with News International’s controversial bid to own all of BSkyB.
Drawing – a collation of thumbnail pencil portraits and some arrows all drawn for my own entertainment (no, really).
Updated – 25th September 2014: An exchange on twitter about recording the activity of lobbyists.
The long-running Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press is now in its third segment – relations between the press and politics. This is an intriguing stage for a number of careers including the Prime Minister’s. His own relations with the disgraced business at News International having long been dragged into the picture.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 21st May 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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You can read the text of the PM’s speech on the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone here.
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Home Secretary Theresa May found herself lost in the beard of preacher Abu Qatada during the end of a decade-long extradition battle. This image was a speedy sketchbook response to a breaking news event.
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Rebekah Brooks, former Chief Executive of News International, the business implicated in the long-running phonehacking and bribery of public officials scandal, has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
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The increasingly uncomfortable coalition government in the UK has attempted to relaunch itself after a disastrous set of results in the recent local elections. Prickly metaphors in the drawing were inspired by the original ‘Rose Garden’ press conference. The latest dual appearance of Nick Clegg and David Cameron was at a tractor factory and dealt in part with the effects of mass unemployment.
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Caricature of Roy Hodgson, recently appointed manager of the England football team.
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In my capacity as Engraver to Tobias Grubbe here is the 100th article of our mutual labours. I hope you enjoy it.
