A simple guide 55
Posted on
April 22, 2013 by
Chris Cairns
…and Hell followed with him 20
Posted on
March 11, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Darling warns blah blah something 39
Posted on
February 23, 2013 by
Chris Cairns
Friends like these #2 69
Posted on
February 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We hadn’t previously bothered commenting on the Guardian cartoon by Steve Bell that had a lot of independence supporters hot under the collar this week. We’d assumed, as seemed the most likely explanation, that it had actually been a comment on what David Cameron was alleged to have mouthed to Angus Robertson at Prime Minister’s Questions, and that Cameron was therefore the main intended target.
We worried that the nationalists who beseiged the paper with angry comments were perhaps being a little oversensitive and looking for offence where none had been meant. Ironically, the cartoon happened only days after we’d highlighted our own habitual inability to understand what Bell’s cartoons were supposed to be about, and that comment turned out to be prophetic, because we had indeed called it wrong.
The respect agenda 6
Posted on
January 30, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Chris Cairns on the price of dignity.
And finally… #5 67
Posted on
January 28, 2013 by
Chris Cairns
Because sometimes the story at the end of the news is just a nice feelgood one.
The nats are our misfortune 37
Posted on
January 28, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We don’t look at British political cartoons very much, mainly because we can’t think of a consistently good one. It seems to be a lost art since the long-gone days of Angus Og, devoted less to cutting insightful and acutely-observed satirical commentary than to the altogether baser pursuit of grotesque caricature.
Even the Guardian’s much-vaunted Steve Bell leaves us stone-cold 99% of the time, and often desperately scouring the news pages to work out what the joke is supposed to be about, let alone whether it’s funny. (He’s been drawing David Cameron with a condom on his head for a fair few years now, and we still have no idea why.)
But half-awake this morning, we clicked on a link in a tweet that led us to The Scotsman’s latest effort, and it’s a sort of masterpiece, in much the same sense that while murder is a terrible thing, Harold Shipman was undeniably really good at it.
Bull Bridge 83
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January 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re unimaginably thrilled to bring you our very first ever official Wings Over Scotland cartoon, composed and drawn by regular reader and commenter Chris Cairns.
We feel like a proper grown-up newspaper now.
The Very Sorry Song 18
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July 28, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As others see us 10
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January 14, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Too many words to take in this week? Then try the referendum debate in pictures. Here’s a collection of cartoons from the last week, from mostly non-Scottish publications (so prepare yourself for a lot of haggis and bagpipes and stereotyping the like of which were last seen in the 1970s), showing the outside world’s digested take on events. It appears to be clear who’s generally seen to have come out on top.
The Independent (Thursday 12th Jan)
