Cartoons

Cartoons from The Canary

The illustration in question is centred around the recent news of structural failures in schools. Hopefully it should be self-explanatory, but just in case the visuals are meant to depict school-shaped unstable Jenga/domino, being held up by a minister (in this case — one bearing an uncanny resemblance to Nick Gibb) and some school children wearing safety gear and playing with a dump truck, are a commentary on the Safety Inspectors. This illustration is meant to satirise the government's uncertain response to concrete safety concerns in schools, highlighting the lack of proactive action and accountability.

The Tories are playing a deadly game of RAAC Jenga with our school children

Idalia Kulik , 6 September 2023

Global boiling is the new normal

Ralph Underhill , 28 July 2023

A cartoon called "the oil company train problem". There is a picture of a train at a junction to two tracks. One track leads to "liveable planet". The other leads to a lot of people tied to the tracks, with a businessman holding bags of cash. The cartoon reads "you can either a) continue to amass huge profits at the cost of the survival of the entire planet and the human race, b) save humanity"

All aboard the corporate capitalist express – but you don’t get to choose your own destination

Ralph Underhill , 19 July 2023

A cartoon with a picture of Keir Starmer saying "we need to put clear blue water between us and the tories". Below him are the Labour Party and Conservative Party logos. In between is a hole in the ground - flowing from both parties' logos is dirty brown water. The hold has rubbish in it, as well as signs that read "child benefit u-turn", "opposing strikes", and "NHS pay"

If politics in the UK was one of Thames Water’s rivers…

A cartoon with the title " front page mock up". On one side is a front page with the headline "Johnson withholds Covid WhatsApp messages and ignores court order". On the other side is a front page with the headline "Day 6: more speculation about unnamed BBC presenter". Two editors are pointing at the BBC presenter headline, saying "let's go for this one... again!"

What possible reason does the media have for obsessing over the BBC presenter…?

A cartoon with the title "mutually assured destruction". The first image is of two separate fingers on nuclear red buttons, one with the US flag behind it, the other with the USSR flag behind it, and both titled "the". The second image is of a person from an oil company holding a bag of cash, who is saying "let's keep burning fossil fuels". Another person is standing next to them, smiling - while a graph shows the global temperature exponentially going up.

There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to the rich and powerful

A BBC editor tells a colleague: "Usual drill... you go through Farage and Lawrence Fox's latest tweets, I'll flick through the Daily Mail

How does the BBC remain so politically impartial?

Ralph Underhill , 6 July 2023

A doctor standing on an NHS podium saying "Today we are here to celebrate 75 years of the Tories trying to destroy our beloved NHS"

Celebrating 75 years of vicious attacks on the NHS

Ralph Underhill , 5 July 2023

Thames Water prove privatisation works – only for shareholders though

Ralph Underhill , 29 June 2023

He knows what he did, we all know what he did, but maybe he was framed!

Ralph Underhill , 15 June 2023

And now we debate which lives are worth rescuing at sea

Ralph Underhill , 14 June 2023

Mr Beaver thinks Mr Raccoon and Mr Squirrel should make their point with less disruption

Ralph Underhill , 9 June 2023

Odds are the Boris Johnson WhatsApp messages are exactly what you think they are

Ralph Underhill , 7 June 2023

Children are the future, but keep them quiet

Ralph Underhill , 1 June 2023

A cartoon called "if animals acted like humans". A picture of two squirrels with a pile of acorns. The boss squirrel is wearing a hard hat and holding a clipboard. It says to the worker squirrel "great work Steve, you've collected 500 acorns! That means you take 1.5 home today".

(Human and non-human) workers of the world unite!

Ralph Underhill , 30 May 2023