BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon

Subject: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 01:07 AM

Couldn't put this up when should have done, yesterday, 17 Sep, because Cat offline all day. Don't know if will get any responses today.

Couldn't make head or tail of yesterday's main cartoon by Peter Brookes in The Times [the UK one]. Who the guy in the glasses disguising self in niqab from his yellow briefcase [ref to Liberal party? Nothing like N Clegg!] when he meets the PM? Why? What ref to? What meant title, "The Nickab..."?

Puzzled? & alarmed becoz sure I ought to know.

Anyone help, please?

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 01:35 AM

The Times would only let me get the latest (Sept 18, - We soldier on!) and Sept. 1 without subscribing, so can't help.

Papers are getting tight-fisted.

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 03:50 AM

I didn't see it, and can't access it either.
Possibly it's not supposed to be Clegg, but someone impersonating him by carrying a yellow briefcase, and hoping to get away with it by wearing a Burqa.
Obviously referencing the current court case where the defendent believed they should be able to hide their face.
The secondary (political) reference is lost on me. Could the face actually be some Tory backbencher who has got a better chance of getting in to see David Cameron if he poses as Clegg?

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 05:19 AM

Thanks for responses.

It seems a very precise caricature from the style. But I can't identify it, or the point being made. Anyone who has seen it anything to suggest, please.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Noreen
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 01:57 PM

Hi M,

It's Vince Cable, not wanting to be seen with David Cameron (as he has recently called the Conservatives 'the nasty party' (good man!)

I'll see if I can find somewhere to post a scan of the cartoon when I get home.

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 02:59 PM

"Papers are getting tightfisted"

Well, the Murdoch ones are. The Guardian is a lot more open handed about stuff like that. As here...

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 08:49 PM

The guardian is obviously an excellent paper!

The 2 major players in our local media are now behind firewalls which is hell for a cartoon collector like me. I started collecting in 1969 in my last year of school & now have 2 collections - paper & .jpg.

Several years ago I lost one of my favourite cartoonists when his paper put up a firewall & I refuse to pay just to see one cartoon per day.

But my local Sydney paper firewall does allow a certain number of freebies so I can keep up with their stable of cartoonists.

I can get into some other state's paper sites & a number of cartoonist sites so I'm (almost) perfectly happy!

Long live the freedom of the political cartoonist!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 11:34 PM

Many thanks, Noreen

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Megan L
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 03:36 AM

Could it have been Jeremy Browne lib dem MP who has asked for debate on banning all female head coverings

could this be him?

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 07:39 AM

Just seen it - the guy with the brief case is Vince Cable, meeting Nick Clegg. He puts on the "Nickab" [pun, and reference to recent court cases ]so he doesn't have to be recognised as being with the currently very unpopular Deputy Prime Minister.
Seemed straightforward to me, but I could be totally wrong.
Not one of his best cartoons, but that's how I read it.

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 05:11 PM

Yes, I get it now. Thank you, Kenny. It was Clegg, not Cameron. A very minor subject for the main political cartoon, it seems to me. No wonder it didn't click.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
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Date: 20 Sep 13 - 10:11 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Noreen
Date: 20 Sep 13 - 04:52 PM

The Peter Brookes cartoon in the Times

Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Sep 13 - 12:48 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Tuesday's Times cartoon
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Sep 13 - 08:22 PM