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Chris Riddell

12 October 2024

  • Chris Riddell cartoon of a 'Reform UK' vulture sitting on a sign saying 'rightwing wilderness'

    Observer comment cartoon
    The Conservatives head towards a rightwing wilderness – cartoon

    Chris Riddell on the direction of the Tory leadership contest after the elimination of James Cleverly

5 October 2024

  • Chris Riddell illustration of the four Tory leadership candidates as the Feeble Four superheroes

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    The Feeble Four: Tory superheroes assemble – cartoon

    James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick jostle for positions in the run-up to the Conservative leadership election

21 September 2024

  • In the run-up to the budget, figures representing doom and gloom precede a maiden representing bloom. She is saying: 'You first.'

    Observer comment cartoon
    Autumn budget 2024: doom, gloom… and bloom – cartoon

    Labour’s talk is all of tax rises and spending cuts. When will we see growth?

14 September 2024

  • Cartoon of Vladimir Putin sitting on a throne, saying 'it's an outrage, we're the only ones allowed to use long range missiles'. Behind him a bear says 'keep bluffing till Trump gets back in'.

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Vladimir Putin telling the west not to let Ukraine fire long-range missiles into Russia – cartoon

    The president warned that such a move would put Nato at war with Moscow

7 September 2024

  • Cartoon of David Cameron's bucolic shepherd's hut with Grenfell Tower burning in the background. The caption reads: 'I know many of you… have been put off or held back by red tape. This government has already stopped needless health and safety inspections.'

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    Chris Riddell on David Cameron musing in his shepherd’s hut while Grenfell Tower burns – cartoon

    In 2014, the former prime minister proudly announced that his government had stopped ‘needless health and safety inspections’

31 August 2024

  • Chris Riddell illustration of a sleeping Keir Starmer, clutching a vase labelled 'spending plans', being visited by a death figure, who is saying: "Wake up, Keir, I've come for the Ming vase.'

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s endangered Ming vase – cartoon

    The prime minister’s beauty sleep is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor with designs on the government’s spending plans

24 August 2024

  • Kamala Harris addressing US voters, saying "Freedom and dignity or the ramblings of the weird old pussy grabber? Tough choice" as Donald Trump's hand looms off stage

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    Chris Riddell on Kamala Harris reveals the choices facing US voters in the presidential election – cartoon

    The Democratic contender tells it like it is about Donald Trump

17 August 2024

  • A Democrat donkey tying a Republican elephant up in knots and saying: 'No way are you recovering your poll lead with weird chats with billionaires." The elephant responds: "Way!"

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on how the Democrats are tying the Republicans up in knots – cartoon

    Donald Trump’s bizarre conversation with Elon Musk leaves Kamala Harris’s party feeling confident

10 August 2024

  • Chris Riddell cartoon of Elon Musk as a Bond villain, in a chair and stroking a white cat, saying "Not so fast, Mr Starmer, # civil war".

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    Chris Riddell on Elon Musk as a Bond villain – cartoon

    The X boss strokes his pet cat, otherwise known as far-right hate

3 August 2024

  • Nigel Farage as a clown, aka 'Farago Dogwhistle, the Clacton carpetbagger'

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    Chris Riddell on Nigel Farage and his dogwhistle politics – cartoon

    The riots in Southport and elsewhere are meat and drink to the leader of Reform UK

27 July 2024

  • I dont know about you but shocked

    Chris Riddell on Rachel Reeves’s shock at finding a black hole in the nation’s finances – cartoon

    The chancellor is expected to reveal a £20bn shortfall after unlocking Jeremy Hunt’s cupboard and finding it bare

20 July 2024

  • Chris Riddell illustration of a Republican elephant with Maga cap and bandaged ear saying "Make America grotesque again".

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    Chris Riddell on how the Republican party is Making America Grotesque Again – cartoon

    Despite its disastrous policies, the party of Donald Trump is trampling all over the Democrats

13 July 2024

  • Illustration of Britannia and a lion, hoping for an England win in Euro 2024

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on how things are looking up for Britannia, on and off the pitch – cartoon

    With Keir Starmer in No 10, all that’s needed now is an England football win in Berlin

6 July 2024

  • Chris Riddell illustration of Keir Starmer's new broom.

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    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s new broom – cartoon

    The prime minister’s Ming vase is intact – but look what’s lurking in the cupboard

29 June 2024

  • Illustration of the Trump v Biden presidential debate

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    Chris Riddell on the Donald Trump v Joe Biden presidential debate – cartoon

    Fears the incumbent is too old grow after an exchange in which the challenger was in full talk-to-the-hand mode

22 June 2024

  • A hand reaching out of a grave throwing away torn-up betting slips, with the words on the headstone reading: ‘Tory party, gambled and lost, 4th July, 2024’

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on the imminent demise of the Tory party and its election betting scandal – cartoon

    Will bets on the general election date be the final nail in the coffin for Rishi Sunak’s poll gamble?

15 June 2024

  • The Labour snail, the Tory zombie and the Lib Dem fairy make their very different ways to the election

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on how the three main parties are heading towards the election – cartoon

    With less than three weeks to go, Lib Dems, Tories and Labour are adopting very different approaches

1 June 2024

  • A diminutive Donald Trump on the Lincoln Memorial with a sign saying 'guilty'.

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    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump trying, and failing, to fill Abraham Lincoln’s boots – cartoon

    The former US president, convicted on 34 counts, pales into insignificance beside the former great

25 May 2024

  • Keir Starmer tiptoeing with a Ming vase labelled ‘Change’ in his kid-gloved hands followed by Rishi Sunak dripping wet and struggling to push an unplugged floor polisher labelled ‘T-ory U-tility R-otor D-riven Polisher’

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    Chris Riddell on Rishi Sunak calling the general election – cartoon

    The prime minister struggles to polish the unpolishable, while Keir Starmer promises change

18 May 2024

  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

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    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv – cartoon

    It may be wounded but, with China’s backing, the bear is feeling bullish
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