The media (and a journalist should know) loves to get self-referential. Vanity Fair magazine has made a half funny joke at the expense of the New Yorker’s recent ‘controversial’ cover image of Barack and Michelle Obama. You can get the full self-referential story here, courtesy of CNN.
The government has launched a green paper on welfare reform targeted in part at removing incapacity payments from one million people. The devil with these sort of uncosted and ‘bold’ initiatives is always in the detail and how they might be administered to take account of individual circumstances. Often, this results in the employment of many new civil servants to administer all the new regulations and systems required. After a while the government discovers it needs to cut costs and these new civil servants return to the ranks of the not-technically-fully-employed. At this point we rediscover the initial problem is much as it was before.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Who can save the national economy? Click the picture for the animated political cartoon at Channel 4 News or, go here.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
Drawn in the wake of the release of the first Guantanamo Bay prison camp interview video. You can see the images all over the web now, or go here, now.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings
This is one in a long series of posts which tend to crop up at times during which political people are engaged in building their public profiles. I imagine the New Yorker will be just delighted with the semi-hysterical response their mgazine cover which features both Othe Obama’s in mildly satirical poses, has got.
The would-be president, who likes to be compared to JFK – John Kennedy – won’t be too unhappy either. Why? Because it allows him to define what he clearly isn’t. And he is doing this early, well ahead of the John MCCain’s Republican attack dogs of the fall.
Clip from Channel 4 News
Matt Buck’s animated drawingsHack cartoons, animations and drawings from Matt Buck
