The Island
May 2, 2023
I spent the May holiday weekend on Eilean Mor MacCormick. But I was still going to bring you a cartoon, right?
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Anger Management With Dominic Raab
April 24, 2023
Dominic Raab resigned as deputy prime minister after a bullying inquiry found he was "intimidating" and "aggressive" towards junior ministers and civil servants. One notable incident involved hurling tomatoes in a fit of rage. Meanwhile reclusive actor Jack Nicholson, star of the 2003 movie 'Anger Management', was snapped by paparazzi on his Mulholland Drive balcony.
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Scooby Broon
April 17, 2023
When police seized an SNP-owned campervan from outside the home of former CEO Peter Murrell's mother, the BBC surpassed itself for tawdry nonsense, showing detailed shots of a similar van, including the toilet. I guess it was a slow news week for all of us.
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Contemptation
April 10, 2023
Following the arrest of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell over questions relating to SNP finances, the house he shares with Nicola Sturgeon was subject to a thorough police search of the type usually reserved for mass murderers (2 days, 20 officers and a tent). Police also issued dire warnings to the public against discussing the case online due to the Contempt Of Court Act.
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The In-Tray Of Doom
April 3, 2023
The Herald actually used the phrase 'in-tray of doom' to describe the challenges facing incoming First Minister Humza Yousaf. It strikes me that much of that in-tray is being stoked by the Scottish media, whose culture of willing the Holyrood government to fail is all-pervasive.
At the end of 2015 I was asked to design a series of murals at the Torphichen Inn, West Lothian, based on Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter. I photographed local residents and collaged them together in what ended up being seven separate panels.
I was six panels in, with no plan for the seventh, when the landlord suggested a portrait of Burns. That sounded good to me. I flipped the original image horizontally so it would face the bar and added a few fun things. Now Burns is on the outside of the building too.
We launched the Tam O'Shanter Murals on March 18th 2016 at the Torphichen Inn with Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. In the summer of that year I won 'Torphichen Citizen of the Year', which delighted me no end.
The following year I wrote a semi-fictional, or "factually dubious" account of the making of the murals, called 'Borrowing Burns'. You can order it here:
The Tam O’Shanter Murals
March 30, 2023
At the end of 2015 I was asked to design a series of murals at the Torphichen Inn, West Lothian, based on Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter. I photographed local residents and collaged them together in what ended up being seven separate panels.
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Pas Mon Roi
March 27, 2023
The people of France took to the streets to protest their government's decision to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64 (in the UK it's already 66 and rising). Amid scenes of violence and flames, and given the country's history of dealing with royals, President Emmanuel Macron made the eminently sensible decision to postpone a planned visit by Britain's new king and queen.
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Not So Great Expectations
March 20, 2023
As the SNP leadership contest moved into its third week and Peter Murrell announced his resignation as the party's chief executive, there was a sense of quiet glee emanating from the opposition branch managers.
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Reich Of The Day
March 13, 2023
BBC Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker was suspended after comparing the government's illegal immigration bill to Germany in the 1930s. All the other football pundits stayed home in solidarity. At the same time the BBC refused to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough's latest wildlife programme over fears of a ‘rightwing backlash’.
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Stupider Than Matt Hancock
March 6, 2023
Whilst preparing his 'Pandemic Diaries', former Health Secretary Matt Hancock entrusted more than 100,000 official WhatsApp messages to his ghostwriter, journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who then passed them onto the Daily Telegraph, where the juicy bits were published. If only he could have seen that coming.