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EU President Ernst Stavro Rompuy and his No2

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

Who needs bother with democratic elections?

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

British Government now considers peaceful protest a terrorist act

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

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

Obama Proposes Disarmament

Obama proposes disarmament to the UN while secret Iranian nuclear facility uncovered.

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

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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. But then they spell the family name wrong too, their hypocrisy, selfishness and amoral crassness knows no bounds.

Goldman Sachs’ CEO ‘I’m doing God’s work’

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The man absolutely beggars belief! As one Times comment said ‘if this man is doing God’s work it’s little wonder the churches are empty’.

Chirac Facing Court on Corruption Charges

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Former French President Jacques Chirac is ordered to stand trial on corruption charges relating to his time as Paris Mayor.

Bob Ainsworth Trial by Nimrod

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

Emperor Blair

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Tony Blair the first EU President?

Radovan Karadzic on Trial in the Hague for War Crimes

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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.

Shadow Culture Minister Does His Master’s Bidding

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 onquality, at least not for the rest of us anyway.

Manx Money Laundering Monkey Business

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.

Tired Old Red Tape Excuses

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.

Immigration Petard

Baroness Scotland hoisted by her own petard tells us don’t do as I do, do as I say.

Trust Me I’m a Tory..

Lollyver

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

Nero Brown

Homie Cameron

Simon Cowell

Global Reinsurance magazine August cover and centre spread

The race for the AIG CEO’s job hots up

Bootiful

This week’s Daily Star cartoon for Joe Mott’s column:

Accountancy Age weekly caricatures

Napoleon Sarkozy

Shame

Nothing more to say.

The Big Bother House

The scurrilous and the treacherous are dropping like flies.

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

Not the Watchmen character, but one of a series I’ve been commissioned to produce for Manx Heritage

HHouse – Hugh Laurie

It occurred to me only after I had finished this caricature of Hugh that his haunted expression reminds me of Munch’s The Scream. I wonder if the casters of House had this in mind when they approached Laurie for the role?