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Coming here at Channel 4 News sometime before Robert Mugabe leaves office.

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Cartoon about the stand Conservative MP David Davis is taking on resigning his seat in the house of commons and refighting a by-election at Haltemprice and Howden. This cartoon made for campaign group No2ID.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Retail price inflation arrives at the Bank of England, for the immediate attention of the governor, Mervyn King. Click the picture or go to Channel 4 news.

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The price of oil cartoon from Hack Cartoons.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Want to give a nod to the series of pen portraits by Simon Kuper on the politics of footballers which has been running on Channel 4 here. The last one has just been published. It is about Lilian Thuram, captain of France. There are ten others to enjoy too.

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Channel 4 News is running a season on being poor in England. Click the picture for the animated cartoon, or click here.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The Shadow Home Secretary and Conservative MP, David Davis, has resigned from his seat in the House of Commons. He says he has done this to highlight attacks on the personal liberties of the British people by government legislation. To me, it appears many of his public concerns lie in and around information technology, its commercial and governmental uses and misuses. This is a subject about which parliament is notoriously badly informed. Privately, his reasons may well also be connected to internal strains in the Conservative party.
Having said this, I think it is interesting and laudable that any politician would choose to make a statement and take an action like this on an issue which is so difficult to explain clearly and well. You might also wonder how much of an influence the idea of the man-in-the-white-suit and Hamilton sleaze-buster of years gone by, Martin Bell, has also been on Mr Davis' chosen tactics.


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The Prime Minister's public willy-waving and incautious use of language (unprecedented threat*) is busy doing some of the terrorists work for them. Parliament is, clearly, in a right panic about a measure which many people* seem to think is currently unnecessary. Thus, we all move onwards towards hysteria junction again, via more unnecessary legislation.

* from rhetorically speaking. Ther is a very similar list at C4 News here too.

UPDATE: Government wins by 9 votes. Thanks to the Democratic Unionist party. Oh well, it will have to be thrown out by the Lords instead.


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The government certainly seems to be putting up plenty of chaff to try and keep attention away from the detention without trial debate on Wednesday. Briefly, listing two eye-catching initiatives, you might notice the threats to close schools in poor parts of the country and the imminent departure of our troops from southern Iraq again. Clearly, these are happy days in the news management department.

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Channel 4 News animated political cartoon on the end of Hillary Clinton and the beginning of Barack Obama. Click the picture to see the animation or press this

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Hillary Clinton has declared herself open to an offer for a vice-presidential running mate slot from her professional rival, Barack Obama. At the time this animation was made in January of this year, I thought she'd struggle to win against either Obama or Edwards and she has. Why, is more difficult to say. There are obvious and negative comparisons to be made between her skill at rhetoric and Obama’s and these do seem to have hurt her chances. However, I think there will be more than a few Americans who will feel, or come to, that a chance to advance one of America's less obviously oppressed groups, has also been missed. There is some thought on this theory from Frances Rosenbluth on the Politic blog from Yale University, which is well worth a read.

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Cartoonist Dave Brown, of the Independent, is very good today (June 3rd 2008).

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Green politics and policies are at the whim of strange human forces, such as a lack of willpower and economic chance.

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The rising price of crude oil is connected to a lack of global refinery capacity, changing demand and good old traditional geopolitics. Why would a group of countries want to make their major economic asset cheaper, just to us please our domestic users?
Click the picture, or go straight to Channel 4 from here, for the animated cartoon.
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There is an exhibition of work by Gustav Klimt opening in Liverpool.There's a little picture preview here from Channel 4 News.

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Not all construction in the UK has halted in the difficult time/slowdown/crisis/recession (delete as appropriate.)

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A predictably ugly result for Gordon Brown in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. How he must enjoy being top man in the presidential style of politics which has been fashionable since late era Mrs Thatcher. (Apologies for the repost but it seems about where things are.)

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A former Conservative MP, Quentin Davies, who defected to the Labour party last year has recommended Britain have a day of celebration for its armed forces. Click the picture for the cartoon or click here for Channel 4 News.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings