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Spectator Out Loud: Damian Thompson, Jade McGlynn and Nick Newman

Best of the Spectator

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Cartoons in the Second World War

Cartoons flourished in the second world war, from bernard partridges to tugas propagandist careless talk. Issue of taste and timing can be restrictive to a cartoonist's freedom. With ukraine, i've tried to do jokes about the consequences of war. Oligarchs selling yachts and football clubs rather than the bombing or the fighting. The key, as so often with comedy, is timing.

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