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Prime Minister’s Questions is poor entertainment compared to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press – and its friends*. Poor old Punch and Judy have not a chance and especially considering David Cameron’s much-loved soundbite of yesteryear. (2005)
* That last phrase is mine.
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A commissioned cartoon for a business magazine client made in February 2012 and owing something to Mahatma Gandhi.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 27th February 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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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 20th February 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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One of the important relationships in the ongoing revelations about the activities of News International disclosed at the Leveson Inquiry is the one between Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, who was formerly the chief executive of the business in the UK.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 13th February 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust, where you amy read all about them.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 6th February 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. Grubbe’s patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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TThe Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 30th January 1712 is published at this window, or just click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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It is helpful when a piece of party political messaging basically write jokes for you. The ‘deficit’ of course is still rising (useful explainer here) and the NHS reforms appear to involve breaking up a series of institutional powers, who aren’t inclined to go quietly.
Every cartoonist I know enjoyed the general election posters of 2010 because they made so many hostages to fortune, or events, dear boy, events*, as they used to be known.
* And as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan never said.
