Gary Barker Illustration

Nurses 98 Lansley 0

2011-04-14T00:24:00.003+01:00

Bravo to the nurses for standing up to a bully boy politician who disrespected them and then expects us to believe he’s ‘listening’. The only reason the Condems are taking time out to ‘listen’ is so they can put the whole thing on the back-burner until after the May elections when the Libdems are going to need all the help they can get to stop them being completely wiped out in the local elections. But in the end it boils down to the fact that health and education are two areas where politicians selfish ambitions need to be kept well away from because they are too important.

Gary Barker: Illustration Portfolio

2011-03-15T20:56:00.000Z

Gary Barker: Illustration Portfolio

The state of the union

2011-03-05T21:56:00.002Z

A banker, a Daily Mail reader and a benefit claimant are sitting at a table sharing 12 bsicuits. The banker takes 11 and says to the Daily Mail reader 'watch out for the benefit claimant he wants your biscuit.'

Rupert Murdoch BSkyB takeover gets government go-ahead

2011-03-03T17:18:00.004Z

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given government approval for its controversial bid to take over BSkyB.

The green light follows News Corp's offer to spin off Sky News as an independent company.

Rival media groups dismissed News Corp's offer as a "whitewash" and said they would "vigorously contest" it.

News Corp, which owns the Sun, the News of the World and the Times and the Sunday Times, is looking to take over the 61% of BSkyB that it does not own.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he intended to accept News Corp's offer rather than refer the takeover to the Competition Commission.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12631875

The Conservative Party: the best government money can buy

Tory NHS reform bill bringing US profiteering ahead of care to your healthcare

2011-03-02T20:16:00.004Z

Leaked document shows how doctors can profit from NHS reform

http://www.channel4.com/news/leaked-document-shows-how-doctors-can-profit-from-nhs-reform

So time to choose: are you happy to keep cap-doffing or is it time to stand up?

Sleaze! Sky! Sleaze!

2010-12-21T18:49:00.002Z

Another one I did over a year ago that shows nothing changes.
Murdoch opponent Cable conveniently taken out of the
Murdoch BSKYB decision and handed over to known Murdoch
toady Jeremy Hunt. Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze.

A Christmas Cameron

2010-12-19T09:57:00.001Z

A seasonal one to end the year. Scrooge Cameron is haunted by the ghosts of Jacob Brown, Christmas Boom and Christmas Bust, while Christmas Yet To Be hovvers menacingly over the crippled form of Tiny Economy. The sad reality is Scrooge saw the error of his ways, Cameron never will.

'We're all in this together'.. apparently

2010-10-21T01:49:00.005+01:00

Governor of the Bank of England 'manages' inflation

2010-09-15T09:23:00.002+01:00

Brazilian Economic Carnival

2010-09-15T09:18:00.002+01:00

The Milibands

2010-09-01T19:45:00.002+01:00

Police get away with murder

2010-07-22T13:09:00.000+01:00

First they lie and when they get caught lying they get away with murder anyway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10723274

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ

What price justice? We'd be a banana republic, but it's too cold to grow bananas.

First they came for..

2010-07-06T19:52:00.001+01:00

Same Old Tories, Same Old Lies

2010-06-28T21:24:00.001+01:00

Idiot

My piece for Joe Mott's column in The Star last Sunday

2010-06-21T22:15:00.003+01:00

Osborne Relishes the Thought of Savage Spending Cuts

2010-06-12T15:45:00.003+01:00

David Laws, the axeman goeth

2010-05-31T11:47:00.003+01:00

Lalit Modi Wisden's Caricature

2010-05-22T09:23:00.004+01:00

The Leadership Debacle

2010-04-29T23:57:00.001+01:00

2010-04-19T22:05:00.000+01:00

Ready.. Steady.. And they're not really bothered actually

2010-04-06T19:00:00.003+01:00

Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling says B&Bs should be able to bar gay guests

2010-04-04T18:16:00.008+01:00

Pope Benedict's new commandment

2010-03-28T17:48:00.000+01:00

Darling's Budget Prayer

2010-03-25T18:59:00.001Z

Tweedle Dum, Dumber and Dumbest

2010-03-23T23:30:00.001Z

At least the stoo-pid Blairites are good for one thing.. They give you lots of
chances to revise old cartoons – this one with Byers joining the happy
throng of idiocy..

Demon Bankers

2010-03-08T01:04:00.004Z

Bullygate

2010-02-23T23:03:00.002Z

Show of Hands - Your Arrogance, Your Ignorance, Your Greed

2010-02-18T09:19:00.003Z

Says it all really.

Dick Cheney practices his 'advanced interrogation' techniques

2010-02-18T00:20:00.003Z

Cheney runs off at the mouth about his wonderful war and lambasts Joe Biden for claiming that the Obama administration should take the credit for advances in Iraq while also claiming that waterboarding is not torture but is merely an ‘advanced interrogation’ technique.

2010-02-14T21:09:00.002Z

Housing minister John Healey told the BBC that housing repossession is the best option for some people. This from the man who made £8OK from the sale of his SECOND home last year.

Terry Loses England Captaincy

2010-02-06T19:52:00.002Z

Stormont Crisis? What Crisis?

2010-01-27T17:53:00.003Z

Dara O'Briain

2010-01-24T20:13:00.005Z

Big Head is Watching You

2010-01-11T02:27:00.002Z

You have to question the wisdom of a political advertising campaign that seems to want to promote the idea that the leader of the party is some kind of creepy Big Brother control freak which is exactly what the Tories current campaign absolutely screams of to me.

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummerer

2010-01-07T01:01:00.001Z

You really would think the Blairites would have got over themselves by now. But then again..

Matthew Wright caricature

2010-01-06T09:19:00.003Z

As seen on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff this morning.

Charlie Brooker Caricature

2010-01-04T20:52:00.004Z

Top Gear Caricature

2010-01-03T18:01:00.003Z

Lord Haw Bore

2010-01-01T14:50:00.004Z

Shameless Tory MEP Daniel Hanning continues to act like some modern day Lord Haw Haw, using his anti-NHS diatribes to ingratiate himself to US Republican right wingers for purely selfish reasons and scant regard for the people of his own country. New Labour have been terrible in government, but I think anyone who thinks the Tories won’t be even worse is in for a very big shock.

Noel Fielding caricature

2009-12-28T19:45:00.002Z

Tories to Reverse Fox Hunting Ban

2009-12-27T00:20:00.000Z

Exterminate the BBC!

2009-12-24T13:57:00.004Z

Dr Who writer Russell T Davies says the Tories will destroy the BBC if elected. This in the same year Murdoch backs Cameron, funny eh?

Santa Brown

2009-12-20T18:30:00.002Z

Merry Christmas

Berlusconi's Hair-raising Experience

2009-12-14T00:39:00.002Z

The self-proclaimed man of the people got more than he bargained for when he actually met the people.

Stephen Fry and Alan Davies

2009-12-13T15:17:00.006Z

Boris Johnson

2009-12-09T23:00:00.000Z

Will Self

2009-12-08T22:43:00.002Z

Novelist and columnist

Gary McKinnon Extradition

2009-12-05T00:21:00.005Z

It would seem New Labour are absolutely hell bent on doing everything they can to ensure they lose the next election.

Free Market Economics 101

2009-12-01T16:22:00.003Z

It's a simple model - the government takes our money and gives it to the fat cat bankers. The so-called supreme court inexplicably reverses a decision on bank charges (or perhaps it's not to hard to explain). The law then used the police to squash peaceful protest and everyone in the loops is happy, but as for the rest of us well..

EU President Ernst Stavro Rompuy and his No2

2009-11-22T16:31:00.008Z

http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/141358/EU-president-Herman-Van-Rompuy-to-be-highest-paid/"

EU President Rompuy and EU Foreign Affairs head Baroness Ashton are the latest triumphs of the political classes' 21st Century penchant for bypassing democracy.

British Government now considers peaceful protest a terrorist act

2009-11-15T19:39:00.002Z

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6544706/DNA-of-protesters-could-be-held-for-life.html

The government is to use the EU anti-terror opt out for retention of DNA of anti-war protestors, which effectively means they consider those who protest peacefully against the war are terrorists.

Dimbleby Misses Question Time

2009-11-14T23:32:00.009Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/12/david-dimbleby-question-time-bullock

BBC Question Time host David Dimbleby was forced to miss Question Time this week after being kicked by a bullock on his farm.

Murdoch and his cronies go to town with their smear job on Brown

2009-11-10T14:32:00.002Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/13/sun-apologises-misspelling-soldier

These sleazes will say and do anything to get their own way and their other puppet Cameron into No10 and the sheeple will just swallow it all up with a big spoon.

Goldman Sachs CEO 'I'm doing God's work'

2009-11-09T02:19:00.006Z

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907681.ece

Can you believe the front of this man?

Who needs bother with elections?

2009-11-05T13:29:00.003Z

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/was+karzaiaposs+election+democratic/3408197

Brown, Blair and Mandelson welcome the newest member to the unelected power club.

Chirac to Face Corruption Charges

2009-10-31T01:47:00.005Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/30/chirac-trial-ordered-corruption-paris

Former French President Jacques Chirac is to face corruption charges relating to his time as Paris Mayor.

Bob Ainsworth's Trial by Nimrod

2009-10-29T19:56:00.010Z

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2014992/Nimrod-inquest-Armed-Forces-Minister-Bob-Ainsworth-apologises-to-victims-families.html

Bob Ainsworth looked like he'd soiled himself when the report into the Nimrod crash blamed government penny-pinching.

Emperor Blair

2009-10-27T15:52:00.004Z

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6860257.ece

Tony Blair, the first President of the EU?

Radovan Karadzic on Trial in the Hague for War Crimes

2009-10-27T15:48:00.003Z

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/karadzic-boycotts-opening-of-war-crimes-trial-1809628.html

Karadzic refused to attend court on the first day of his trial for war crimes in the Hague, demanding more time to prepare his case.

2009-10-23T13:36:00.002+01:00

Shadow Culture Minister Does His Master's Bidding

2009-10-20T00:50:00.006+01:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/tories-threaten-to-tear-up-lord-reiths-bbc-legacy-1805627.html?action=Popup

Only a couple of weeks since Murdoch endorsed the Tories and low and behold the Tories repay their master's kindness stating their plans to 'rip up' the BBC's Royal Charter. One thing you can always say for the Tories they're not hung up on quality, at least not for the rest of us anyway.

Manx Money Laundering Monkey Business

2009-10-13T18:58:00.002+01:00

Trevor Baines collapsed in court today after being found guilty of money laundering in a $175 million scam and remanded in custody. Baines who is 493rd The Times rich list took part in the fraud in 2001.

Same Tired Old Police Red Tape Excuses

2009-10-10T16:18:00.003+01:00

A controversial one this time. Discontent with British policing has been growing for some time, with the police often claiming they're unavailable to answer the needs of those who need them most. We hear all the time of families and individuals being victimised by young thugs, with the police calling this anti-social behaviour and label it low priority, and then hiding behind the tired old excuses of 'being tied up with red tape' and government's notions of not wanting to 'criminalise the young'. The law and the police do not criminalise anyone, the criminals do that to themselves by committing crimes, whatever their age. Perhaps the public (who are being badly let down by the system) might be a little more understanding if the police weren't so keen to arrest anyone who stands up for themselves, but only doing so out of frustration when the police refuse to help.

Murdoch gets a bye on democracy

2009-10-04T16:18:00.004+01:00

Obama cancels missile defence while new Iranian nuclear facility revealed

2009-09-30T01:11:00.003+01:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/24/nuclear-weapons-un-security-council

Obama pushes for disarmament at the UN while a secret nuclear facility is uncovered in Iran.

Immigration Petard

2009-09-23T20:39:00.001+01:00

2009-09-20T18:24:00.004+01:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-accused-of-planning-deep-public-services-cuts-1694344.html

David Cameron and his cronies must me drooling at the thought of being able to slash and burn public services after the next election. The Tories love to cut services when times are good, but when there is the made to measure need to cut expenditure they think they've died and gone to hell.

Lollyver

2009-09-14T12:44:00.008+01:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6499657/MPs-expenses-scandal-a-timeline.html

A publicity piece I created a couple of months ago in light of the MPs expenses scandal.

Simon Cowell

2009-09-13T10:27:00.002+01:00

Over-rated smug git, no more to say.

Nero Brown

2009-09-11T15:42:00.006+01:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/07/european-elections-manchester-liverpool

Whatever poor old Gordon does seems to be wrong and with Murdoch and his cronies outrageously smearing him at every turn it's no wonder Cameron and his cronies are looking so smug. All I'll say is Nu Labour are truly terrible, but an awful lot of people who have never experienced a Tory government in slash and burn mode have a very rude awakening coming.

Homey Cameron

2009-09-06T13:59:00.012+01:00

Daniel Craig

2009-08-12T16:31:00.011+01:00

AIG CEO Race Hots Up

2009-08-10T18:48:00.003+01:00

Global Reinsurance magazine August cover and centre spread

Bootiful

2009-07-08T14:42:00.002+01:00

Napoleon Sarkozy

2009-06-12T19:43:00.003+01:00

Shame

2009-06-09T18:58:00.012+01:00

Nothing more to say

The Big Bother House

2009-06-06T08:59:00.006+01:00

The scurrilous and the treacherous are dropping like flies.

Speaker Martin Resigns

2009-05-20T22:39:00.002+01:00

2009-04-09T19:06:00.003+01:00

Paul van Buitenen MEP

An example of the work I do for one of my regular clients. Each week I produce a caricature of someone famous in the finance sector. This particular chap is little known outside the business and political sectors, but he is most famous as a whistleblower who revealed fraud and mismanagement within the European Commission. He is now an MEP himself.

The Comedian

2009-03-22T12:54:00.002Z

Not the Watchmen character but one that I've been asked to do as part of a series for Manx Heritage

John Martyn

2009-01-29T18:12:00.000Z

The sad news has just been announced that John Martyn has died.

He was a great influence on me.

God Bless John

This week’s Daily Star on Sunday cartoon for the Joe Mott column

2009-01-04T10:23:00.004Z

The very last BBC Politics Show Barker Gallery political cartoon

2008-12-07T12:04:00.003Z

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.

The Grim Reaper-ssessor

2008-12-01T13:30:00.001Z

Opinions Please..

2008-11-24T13:19:00.003Z

I will be going to the PCS Political Cartoon Awards in a week or so and have to send my entry for 'political cartoon of the year' and would be grateful if people would let me know which are their favourites, from say the last dozen or so i.e. from the 'Who's Dithering Now?' cartoon and since.

Many thanks.

G

Time for a Little Fiscal Stimulation

2008-11-23T10:02:00.002Z

We're coming to the end of the current run of the Politics Show and I would be grateful if people who enjoy my stuff would please click this link and have quick look through my cartoons there:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/7611880.stm

This will help ensure the cartoons continue to be produced. Thanks.

I'm a Politician in the Westminster Jungle Get Me Out of Here!

2008-11-21T21:45:00.003Z

The War on Tax Havens

2008-11-16T13:11:00.006Z

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.

The Third Weigh

2008-11-09T23:17:00.004Z

And We All Know What Happened Next..

2008-11-02T13:55:00.003Z

Congratulation to all in the US. It's nice to see someone responsible, intelligent and able back in charge after so long, thank goodness.

Hal-O-bama

2008-10-31T10:03:00.006Z

This week's BBC editorial cartoon: The Brown Bounce and the Cameron Crunch

2008-10-26T18:37:00.005Z

2008-10-22T19:11:00.000+01:00

Gordon 'Saves' the World

2008-10-19T15:09:00.003+01:00

The European "Union"

2008-10-13T10:10:00.003+01:00

Whoops Apocalypse!

2008-10-11T17:47:00.001+01:00

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.

Let's be honest, how many of us said that he'd bring the world to it's knees the day he stole the original US Presidential election? I know I did.

US Republican Party: They Fail and We All Pay

2008-10-05T14:29:00.002+01:00

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.

EDF Buy Out of British Energy: Yet More Free Market Folly

2008-10-01T20:11:00.001+01:00

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.

Conference Season Reveals Voters’ “Option”..

2008-09-28T15:55:00.001+01:00

Let’s face it - whichever party we get in power they will put the fat cats, who caused the economic crisis and who pull their strings, before the people and the country.

Paul Newman dies

2008-09-27T15:22:00.003+01:00

My favourite actor and a very great human being. The world cannot afford to lose people like Paul Newman.