the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

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We would all be the winner

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link

Turner Prize imo.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link

lol my dormant proofing editor instincts kicked in briefly there and i reached to correct perspex to Perspex®

mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link

perpetual lowercase = fine
failing to respect a registered trademark = NOT COOL

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link

Knowledge is knowing that 'Frankenstein' was the name of the doctor, not the 'monster'.
Wisdom is knowing that Dr Frankenstein is the monster.
Awareness is knowing that everybody who works for The Sun is a cunt.

— Tim Ireland (@bloggerheads) March 7, 2018

Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:38 (six years ago) link

One Nation Under A Groove

Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link

Maggot Brain more like.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link

"There is a need for a truly professional political party that believes in Britain, that preserves our national identity, culture, heritage and confidence and talks our great nation up rather than down."

yes, now more than ever what we need is a truly professional political party, one led by *checks notes* uh a guy who got kicked out of ukip for shagging someone too openly racist for the uk's most racist party to tolerate

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link

And who was prepared to chuck her to the kerb to stay on as leader until he got chucked, at which point he went back for her aww and showed a man of principles! As in 'I think there's one over there"

Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link

Corbyn goes in on Saudi human rights at #PMQs. May accuses him of "mansplaining" after he says it's International Women's Day tmrw.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) March 7, 2018

Simon H., Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link

Sick burn

Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link

oh god it's even more cringeworthy than you'd imagine

.@jeremycorbyn: 'to mansplain - verb informal - explaining (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronising.' #PMQs #IWD2018 pic.twitter.com/dZQuPByChF

— Theresa May (@theresa_may) March 7, 2018

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link

The Irony Lady (what with only 28% of her party's MPs being women)

nashwan, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link

Britain First jailed for nine months

You know who else was jailed for nine months

imago, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link

by the rate Britain First numpt is ageing, he'll be pushing a bunny-hatted Frank Field around in a pram, before he get's out/knock's out his political manifesto.

calzino, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link

The EU has thrown down an ultimatum to Theresa May in Brexit talks, warning that it will not open discussions about trade or other issues until the Irish border question is solved.

Speaking in Dublin alongside the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, European Council president Donald Tusk said talks would be a case of “Ireland first” and that “the risk of destabilising the fragile peace process must be avoided at all costs”.

“We know today that the UK government rejects a customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea, the EU single market, and the customs union,” the Council president said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-talks-irish-border-tusk-varadkar-northern-ireland-uk-solution-dup-a8246216.html

Simon H., Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link

The proposed free school meal cuts to kids on UC will be forced to a Parliamentary vote now. Even the DUP are against this grotesque shit, so no majority.

"Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has forced ministers to bring them to the floor of the Commons using an obscure parliamentary process known as “praying against” the regulations."

calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link

maybe this belongs on the bad cartoons thread but here is after all where we talked abt him already

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXyzLb-W4AA5BOD.jpg

mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link

jesus wept, talk about making fuck all talent go a very long way. Might buy a copy of Private Eye one day, now I've got my first prescription reading glasses, might just be able to read that almost microfiche sized print that usually I can only make out on links like this.

calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link

private eye is also bad not good tbh, except sometimes on gossip from within the grown-up press

also holding rich men to ransom bcz yr the only popular commodity they have to hand isn't a negligeable talent

mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link

there's lots of shit unfunny humour, but streets of shame is v good.

calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link

Yes private eye is good not bad so long as someone tapes over I think virtually all of the cartoons

stet, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link

the term sub-matt was coined on the bad uk cartoons thread: prviate eye has devoted years to its full realisation

mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link

six hundred and fifty thousand pounds per annum

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link

i find it helps to think abt how very very much the barclay twins must hate him

mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link

wish i had tried the crap that 'art attack' advised now.

mark e, Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link

Nabisco george the poet otm

Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 8 March 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link

"Private Eye" is good investigative journalism with some shitty cartoons thrown in. It's a shame they label themselves as a satirical mag when that's clearly not their main concern but hey.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 9 March 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link

Some of the individual panel cartoons in PE are OK, tho' generally they are not a patch on the ones in The New Yorker, or even (gulp) The Spectator. It's the regular comic strips that are so irredeemably poor.

I wonder if Matt is the best-paid newspaper cartoonist in the world, or if a British cartoonist before him has ever had such 'power' over editors and owners (maybe Giles at his peak? Or even Vicky, during the war years?)

Ward Fowler, Friday, 9 March 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link

i'm sure if said this before on ilx but i'd probably pay more for an edition of private eye in which the cartoons and 'satire' were excised altogether

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 March 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link

matt, but every caption replaced with "christ what a racket"

mark s, Friday, 9 March 2018 10:40 (six years ago) link

I can see why his lordship's recent birthday party so was well attended now. Lovely guy, damn these contrarian norms that think otherwise, such a humble guy who earns 100 times more than you for drawing a cock than you earn for 50000 words. Btw attendance isn't optional people.

calzino, Friday, 9 March 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link

lmao @ this shit lazy doodler being the best thing in the paper, the guy that keeps the circulation above water. Tragically, it's almost certainly true.

(robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 9 March 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link

.@Telegraph lol your readership is dying and the cartoonist who can only draw the same three people with overbites is your MVP

(robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 9 March 2018 11:06 (six years ago) link

anyone still doubting the political smarts of the corb team, just remind them he cheerfully dunked on matt before all this went public: this is why medway is now in play

mark s, Friday, 9 March 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link

btew it totally owns that all the identical ppl in every identical matt cartoon have cock and balls for a face, banksy retire binch

mark s, Friday, 9 March 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link

here's me drawing cock and balls for free like a fuckin chump while matt makes a cool two-thirds of a mil each year doing the same thing in the pages of sir bufton-tufton's favoured monocle-popper, smdh

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 March 2018 11:13 (six years ago) link

.@Telegraph lol your readership is dying and the cartoonist who can only draw the same three people with overbites is your MVP

They should probably also give a hefty raise to the crossword bloke and the dudes who write about cricket as well b/c they're pretty much the only things people buy it for these days.

Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link

If the brothers weren't so clearly attached to having a platform to foghorn fascism into the public discourse, I'd suggest they relaunch the Telegraph as an upmarket sports paper.

(robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 9 March 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link

the barclays are in that rare class of rich weirdoes where if they appeared in fiction you'd think them a bit too much of a departure from reality to be believable

is there a decent bio of them out there anywhere or have they litigated away any decent exposés?

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 March 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link

the ranter is good on the proliferation of rich weirdos: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2017/11/19/the-theory-of-the-eccentric-billionaire-and-why-politicians-got-so-awful/

mark s, Friday, 9 March 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link

mathematical proof of who is the greatest artist of all time

Just did some quick sums and I reckon Matt is paid more for every single cartoon he draws than van Gogh was for the one painting he sold in his life, hahahahaha.

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) March 9, 2018

Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 9 March 2018 12:00 (six years ago) link

Lol that's so dumb.

Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link

I'm pretty sure the Baha Men made more money off one song than Johann Sebastian Bach made in his entire career.

Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2018 12:08 (six years ago) link

I'm genuinely curious how long it takes Matt to draw a cartoon on average, and what his hourly rate works out at. (iirc he actually submits six cartoons in sketch form each day and the Telegraph editors choose the best one which Matt then inks? do the other cartoons just go in the bin or is there a Matt archive being maintained? will there be some kind of Beatles Anthology style release of the rejected Matt cartoons?)

soref, Friday, 9 March 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link

xp I agree it's stupid, but not more stupid than Matt's salary

Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 9 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link

dude he has delivered 65,700 cock-and-ball tableaux, if anything he is underpaid for this monument to subversive effrontery

mark s, Friday, 9 March 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link


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