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2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

16 22
saturday

In a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting with impunity, the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stood out to me as a rare win for justice and accountability. Dark humour feels vital to make light of everything that’s going wrong, but I’ve also been trying to draw cartoons that highlight reasons for hope, such as the fragile ceasefire in Gaza or Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York.


2025 has been remarkable not for what I’ve drawn but for what I haven’t. In 40 years of cartooning I’ve never known such........

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