Sunday 7 December 2008
The very last BBC Politics Show Barker Gallery political cartoon
So here it is the last one and now it's time for me stand down to help pay to keep the fat cats in the type of jollies they're accustomed to. Thank you and good night.
Monday 1 December 2008
Monday 24 November 2008
Opinions Please..
Many thanks.
G
Sunday 23 November 2008
Time for a Little Fiscal Stimulation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/7611880.stm
This will help ensure the cartoons continue to be produced. Thanks.
Friday 21 November 2008
Sunday 16 November 2008
The War on Tax Havens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/04/obama-tax-haven-crackdown
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown target offshore tax havens, but Obama perhaps sees the UK as a tax haven too, considering the amoral levels of tax the mega-rich are allowed to avoud in the UK.
Sunday 9 November 2008
Sunday 2 November 2008
And We All Know What Happened Next..
Friday 31 October 2008
Sunday 26 October 2008
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Sunday 19 October 2008
Monday 13 October 2008
Saturday 11 October 2008
Whoops Apocalypse!
So Bush has ended nuclear sanctions against India, so they can now expand their nuclear capacity, without signing the non-porliferation treaty. And the double whammy is he has taken North Korea off his naughty boy nation list, even though international inspectors found the agreed seals on nuclear installations had been broken. So not only has Bush delivered economic armageddon to the world but he has tried his best to bring the physical version too.
Sunday 5 October 2008
US Republican Party: They Fail and We All Pay
I find it utterly staggering that the party which dictated to the world the ideology which has now brought the planet to the verge of total economic collapse i.e. unregulated free market economics, should try to pretend that this great big mess isn't their fault. The banks operate under the laws of the jungle, it's their nature, but it is the right wing parties of the world who have let them do as they please through their refusal to regulate their bheaviour. Make no mistake - this mess has been isn't only the Republican's fault, but it was certainly led by them and then followed blindly by the right wing parties of 'New' Labour in the UK and the 'Christian' Democrats across Western Europe. Well here's news to all the right wingers who hide behind so-called Christian values - Christ most certainly would not have been a right winger and real Christian values are just about as far removed from what you stand for as you can get.
Wednesday 1 October 2008
EDF Buy Out of British Energy: Yet More Free Market Folly
I have to say in these days of supposed concerns over the security of energy supply I find it incredible that no one should question the wisdom of selling a major essential service provider in effect to a foreign power i.e. the sale of British Energy to EDF - the nationalised French power organisation. Even as an avid Francophile I have to say it makes me a little uncomfortable to think of the leverage that this could give the French government when our two nations may have our occasional ideological differences. The thing I find most amazing about all of this is the British as a nation have so willingly been spoonfed and then swallowed the idea that free market market economics are the universal elixir that there should be no mention whatever voicing these concerns in the UK Press across their whole spectrum from the right to ultra right.
Sunday 28 September 2008
Conference Season Reveals Voters’ “Option”..
Saturday 27 September 2008
Paul Newman dies
Wednesday 24 September 2008
Robert De Niro
Monday 22 September 2008
Who's Dithering Now?
John Prescott and Charles Clarke were on the show this week representing the pro and anti Gordon Brown lobby respectively.
Sunday 21 September 2008
Saturday 20 September 2008
Thursday 18 September 2008
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Sunday 14 September 2008
“What I did on my summer holidays!” - BBC Poltics Show tv clip
Saturday 13 September 2008
As you sew, so shall you reap
Friday 12 September 2008
Wednesday 10 September 2008
Sunday 7 September 2008
"What I Did On My Summer Holidays"
Thursday 4 September 2008
Michael Caine
Saturday 30 August 2008
Thursday 28 August 2008
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Tuesday 26 August 2008
Art Deco in the Sun
Sunday 24 August 2008
Mr Roggoo
The President of the IOC Jacques Rogge tells us the Chinese have delivered everything the IOC could want in the Beijing Olympics. So the promise to hold the Chinese government to account on human rights issues has just been forgotten has it Mr Rogge? Personally I think he should have spent less time criticising Usain Bolt’s celebrations and more time concentrating on what he had promised the world he would do. So it seemed very fitting for me to draw him with reference to that other famous mypoic character Mr Magoo.
Thursday 21 August 2008
Capello - Another Flash in the Pan
It looks like another false dawn for England fans. Have we really lost so much ground on the rest of the world that we cannot find 11 decent players to pull on the shirt or are they just over-paid primadonnas who couldn’t care less because they know win lose or draw for their country they’ll still get their huge paychecks from their clubs at the end of it. Or is it that the creation of the Premiership and the lure of big money to the foreign players has meant we no longer bring home-grown talent through. All I know for sure is that I haven’t seen a half decent England team play since they demolished the Dutch in Euro ‘96 and we’ll be lucky to qualify for the World Cup let alone do anything if we get there.
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Wednesday 13 August 2008
Tuesday 12 August 2008
Friday 8 August 2008
Amy Winehouse
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Tuesday 5 August 2008
Wednesday 30 July 2008
Moonlit Bear illustration
Monday 28 July 2008
The Clowns - Strip 1
Thursday 24 July 2008
Saturday 19 July 2008
Thursday 17 July 2008
Paul Newman
Paul Newman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors to ever appear on film. He has never put in a bad performance (but that's not to say all of the films he has been in have deserved his presence). Personal favourites of mine are The Verdict where his performance as the washed up ambulance-chaser was surely the one he deserved the Oscar for, Absence of Malice with it's brilliant finale and Nobody's Fool which is just a great humanist performance. None of these are amongst his best known films and they are all examples of the mature actor. His earlier, more testosterone charged performances, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hud were also brilliant. Newman is a great humanitarian and his generous efforts for charity are second to none. To me he encapsulates everything that is good about America. So I was very sad to hear of his illness recently and I for one wish him a speedy recovery.
House - Hugh Laurie
Wednesday 16 July 2008
Sunday 13 July 2008
Let Them Eat Caviar
The staggering hypocrisy of the G8 leaders supposedly discussing global poverty and food shortages, while sitting down to eat 16 course meals of the most expensive and scarce foodstuffs. No wonder so many of us have lost all faith in our politicians. To emphasize the point I used four endangered species as the main courses (which upset my other half so much she couldn't look at it). I originally wanted to put 'let them eat McDonald's', to make the point that the globalisation agenda favoured by the more right wing nations at the table was indeed part of the problem, but unfortunately this was judged as too litigious. Personally I find it very worrying we can say almost anything we like (as cartoonists) about our elected political representatives who we have at least some power over, but we cannot make even the mildest of criticisms of the multinationals who we have absolutely no power over what so ever.