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Islands in the stream 79

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The road to hell 173

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Half a decade away 157

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Holiday Boy is taking slacking to a new extreme to mark the onset of spring, and we’re sad to inform you that there’ll be no Cairnstoons on Wings for another couple of weeks while our intermittent satirist rearranges his Fabergé eggs or something.

Entirely by coincidence, yesterday we were doing some overdue admin, and as we filed away some previous bits of crayon-work we couldn’t help but be struck by the prescience of a few cartoons from various times, 2013 in particular.

So just in case anyone had forgotten (attention spans are short these days), here’s some of the insight we’re all currently missing.

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The decoy 89

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The some-nerve agent 89

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Bloody rebels 535

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The dragon fighters 217

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The usual suspect 631

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The star prize 77

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For Jim – one of the greats – and for us, for now. RIP.

(More Twinstoons here.)

In Scotland’s corner 391

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The uninvited 493

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The tea party 151

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