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QueensCurve
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Very good. Complete with short trousers.
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My go-to favourite cartoonist has taken a slightly more Railforum-adjacent approach.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...shrinking-railway-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...shrinking-railway-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
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DarloRich
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both very good but neither is really cutting enough. I will wait for Private Eye or Cold War Steve!
Peter Mugridge
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It's Rishi Sunak; look at the ears and the short trouser legs.
Bread & cheese
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Matt in the Daily Telegraph.
A caveman dressed in an animal skin is carrying a mallet. Around him are fragments of stone, and a larger piece of stone shaped like a U. He says to another caveman 'I started to invent the wheel, but it got too expensive to finish'.
A caveman dressed in an animal skin is carrying a mallet. Around him are fragments of stone, and a larger piece of stone shaped like a U. He says to another caveman 'I started to invent the wheel, but it got too expensive to finish'.
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The wonderful Peter Brookes, eighty years old now, has accentuated those features since he first started drawing Sunak.
I don't know. Perhaps he's morphed into a modern day caricature of a cloned Tory. Rhees Mogg looks like a cosplay model for that.
All the cartoons posted are excellent.
Until I saw the Stephen Collins cartoon, I had overlooked the irony of the PM making the speech in the former Manchester Central station building!
Until I saw the Stephen Collins cartoon, I had overlooked the irony of the PM making the speech in the former Manchester Central station building!
lukewarm off the pressdram press…
(cartoon shows a couple walking on a platform, with signs above directing to the left “Elizabeth Line” and to the right “Victorian Line” - the couple are walking to the right, and one of them is saying “The North of England is this way”)
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It's defo Sunak, but I dare say the allusion to a 'cosplay Rees-Moggist' figure was intended, alongside the more literal reference to an undertaker.
I wonder if this will be one of the main things the Sunak Premiership will be remembered for in years to come.
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Oh please - isn't one Rees-Mogg enough for the world to bear? The idea of someone choosing to channel his spirit for cosplay purposes makes me feel like retching.
DarloRich
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poor - i assume that one went to press before the announcement
Joe Paxton
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I wasn't suggesting Sunak was himself choosing to channel Rees-Mogg, rather the cartoonist!
Not sure Sunak really has any clear idea of who or what he'd choose to channel...
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And Matt today... referencing both the HS2 cancellation and the proposed smoking age increase each year. Two kids sitting having a cigarette with one saying to the other "If we could stop Tories taking up infrastructure projects, they wouldn't have to quit them later on."
Gloster
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The Eye goes to press around 18.00 on Mondays.
Well PE has been rather anti HS2. They can’t be perfect.
GRALISTAIR
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Me too. Yes they usually scathingly hit the nail on the head.
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More fun than nothing, at least!
ExRes
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Should really be single track or is this a passing loop?
Does anyone know where that is? Looks like a railway worth visiting!
Shipley Glen tramway I believe?
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Joe Paxton
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The Eye's editor Ian Hislop said as much about HS2 on Friday's HIGNFY, and mentioned the costs running out of control.
However the magazine does embrace multiple viewpoints.
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A little humor from the US where some of our trains don't run as frequently as we would like or can have lengthy delays.
(Political cartoon by Etta Hulme. This cartoon appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The cartoon shows a woman and a child sitting with their luggage in an Amtrak station. A man comes out of the ticket booth and says, "the December meteor has a new schedule. You folks are looking at the middle of January.")
(Political cartoon by Etta Hulme. This cartoon appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The cartoon shows a woman and a child sitting with their luggage in an Amtrak station. A man comes out of the ticket booth and says, "the December meteor has a new schedule. You folks are looking at the middle of January.")
Dr Hoo
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At least the presence of a staffed ticket booth/booking office at a USA station with (apparently) four trains per year shows a more enlightened attitude to passenger service than current proposals in England.
pokemonsuper9
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Looks like 2 trains per year, each spend months there before leaving again!
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