Mad Dog's Last Stand

At this stage it looks like anything could happen. A people's revolt or a crushing crackdown? Either way it will probably be ugly. Once you start shooting your own people it's usually a no win situation (unless you are Chinese but we can't talk about that). Can't help but picture Gadaffi as this Dr Strangelove character with an increasingly frail grasp of reality.

Bunga Bunga

Always a controversial character and sometimes a laughing stock Silvio Berlosconi may have finally met his match. Today he has been ordered by an Italian judge to stand trial for paying for underage girls and covering it up. Apparently he was not so successful at covering it up.

The clock ticks...

...and ticks. Mubarak seems to have been clinging on to power by the skin of his teeth for some time now. Well, 17 days anyway. The most interesting fact I discovered about Egypt during these events is that Egypt has been in an official state of crisis for 30 years. So I guess the last 17 days is no big deal. By the sounds of the news this evening he may well be gone by the time I post this, so this image will probably be already out of date!

Recession stupid

So the tories put the recessionary growth figures down to the weather huh? Even the sympathetic media can see through their 'dog ate my homework' excuses. C'mon Dave where's the good news?

No craft carrier

Apparently in a few years time we will have an aircraft carrier or two.... but no planes to fly off them. For NINE years! So we will effectively have some large defenceless car parks bobbing around the ocean for the best part of a decade at huge cost. I tried to capture the 'carry on regardless' mentality which makes up the British character. We will definitely need a sense of humour if the tories continue like this.

So George Osborne's big day today. Cuts cuts and more cuts. Will it improve the situation or not that is the question. I have no idea - it seems the more I learn about economics the less I know. What I do know is that Osborne's nose looks to me like a bell end.

Stop me if...

...you've heard this one before. Ok so I had this idea for a gag then half way through drawing it up I had this nasty feeling. Had I seen it before? Someone must have come up with it. Had I seen it? God knows i've looked at enough cartoons in my lifetime. This must be a familiar scenario with cartoonists. Actually this must be a familiar scenario for many: the song writer who writes a song only to realise they have used the chord changes from Hey Jude. I guess this is why I prefer doing political cartoons - if they are topical they have to be new. So onward, I checked with Google images - nothing. That's not to say it's not out there - how much time am I supposed to spend looking?