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Chris Riddell

12 April 2025

  • Beneath a caption that reads ‘Captain America First’, Donald Trump as the super hero Captain America holds up his 'tariffs shield' against a jet of flame. Behind him is a wrecked city scape with crashed cars and street furniture in disarray. Trump’s long red tie is being grasped by a muscular suited arm labelled ‘Bond Market’, which is pulling it tight. In the foreground is a diminutive Keir Starmer as a Minion character. Trump is saying “My carefully thought out plan is working brilliantly…bring it on, Chynnah!” Starmer is saying '…More great news! The UK is getting a new theme park!'

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    Chris Riddell on Donald ‘Captain America’ Trump wielding his tariff shield – cartoon

    Is the president really ready to do battle with China after causing global chaos and undermining the US economy?

5 April 2025

  • A pastiche of the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster that reads ‘Keep Calm and Roll Over’ with a desperate looking Keir Starmer in the foreground holding up a Royal Crown and saying “Please be gentle, Mr. President…Look! A shiny Royal Visit!”

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    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer begging Trump to be kind on tariffs – cartoon

    Will the lure of a state visit help keep Britain’s burden lower?

29 March 2025

  • Beneath a caption that reads ‘Stinky Midas’, Donald Trump reaches out to touch a pile of gold labelled ‘Global Economy’. Behind him are piles of steaming manure labelled ‘National Security’, ‘Nato’, ‘Foreign Policy’, ‘Welfare’ and ‘Education’ respectively. Buzzing round Trump’s head is Nigel Farage as a fly with a napkin labelled ‘Reform UK’ around his neck and grasping a spoon. Farage is saying “Delicious!”

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    Chris Riddell on King Trump: all that he touches turns to… – cartoon

    In the US, everything is going down the pan, while the global economy glistens with growth

22 March 2025

  • A cartoon on Rachel Reeves' spring statement. A stag-skulled figure with huge antlers that have punctured a party balloon labelled ‘Growth’ clutches an enormous sack labelled ‘Borrowing’ and holds a battered scythe labelled ‘Spending Cuts’. The figure is saying “Good luck sticking to your fiscal rules, Rachel…”

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    Chris Riddell on stagflation rearing its ugly head before Rachel Reeves’ spring statement – cartoon

    Hopes of growth hang deflated, borrowing takes its toll and spending cuts loom

15 March 2025

  • A snarling bear with its muzzle and paws covered in blood stands amid a wasteland of war. One of its paws rests on a Trump dossier. The bear is saying 'Of course we want a ceasefire… as long as we get everything we want and you collectively forget who started this "Special Military Operation"…'. While the front of the bear looks strong and aggressive, its rear quarters are badly wounded.

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    Chris Riddell on ceasefire negotiations: Putin’s all for it as long as Russia’s bear isn’t muzzled – Cartoon

    The Russian president has responded to a plan for a 30-day truce with Ukraine by issuing a set of tough conditions

8 March 2025

  • Under a caption that reads ‘Europa and the Bill’, Europa the goddess rides a battered-looking bull labelled ‘Defence Spending’ and holds an unravelling paper till roll. Europa is looking worried and is urging the bull onwards. She is saying “Giddy up! The orange pussy grabber is selling us out…who knew?”

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    Chris Riddell on Europe gasping at its €800bn rearmament bill as it accepts that Trump can’t be trusted – cartoon

    EU leaders proposed a huge increase in defence spending after the US suspended military aid to Ukraine

1 March 2025

  • Captioned ‘Rendevous’, Keir Starmer greets Donald Trump flourishing an invitation to a state visit while the president raises a golden crown from his head in reply. A body labelled ‘Ukraine’ lies at their feet. Starmer is saying “Narcissistic transactional useful idiot of Putin, I believe…” Trump is saying “Craven desperate lackey of King Charles, I presume…”

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    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s cordial meeting with Donald Trump, as Ukraine awaits a terrible fate – cartoon

    The prime minister wooed the president with the offer of a state visit to Britain

22 February 2025

  • Referencing David Low’s famous cartoon ‘The Angels of Peace descend on Belgium’, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as black-winged angels of death descending with a city scape far below them. Putin is holding the end of Trump’s tie like a leash and Trump is holding a book titled ‘The Art of the Peace Deal’. The cartoon is captioned 'The Angels of Peace Descend on Ukraine' and signed ‘Riddell after Low’,

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    Chris Riddell on Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump: the angels of peace descend on Ukraine – cartoon

    The US president, on a Russian leash, holds talks that exclude the invaded country

15 February 2025

  • Under a caption that reads ‘Danse Macabre’, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are dancing with the grim reaper on a pile of skulls. Trump has a baseball cap with ‘Russia First’ on the front, pulled down over his eyes, and Putin is wearing a tzar’s crown labelled ‘War Criminal’ and is dancing rings around Trump. In the background a musical speech bubble reads “Y-ellow M-aga C-owardly A-ppeasement…

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    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, cowardly appeaser of war criminal Vladimir Putin – cartoon

    If the US president really wants peace in Ukraine why is he putting Russia first?

8 February 2025

  • Donald Trump in a hard hat standing in front of a billboard showing a luxury beach resort with the slogan ‘Gaza- Riviera of the Middle East’. Behind the billboard is a mountain of rubble. Trump clutches rolled up blueprints labelled ‘Greenland Gold Mine’, ‘Ukraine Baba Yaga Theme Park’ and ‘Panama Water World’. Netanyahu is grasping Trump’s coat tails and smiling broadly as Trump says “Don’t worry, Bibi, I’ve got this…”

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    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump’s plan to take over and redevelop Gaza – cartoon

    The US president said he wanted Palestinians to leave, in an announcement widely condemned as ethnic cleansing

1 February 2025

  • Rachel Reeves on her knees in front of a golden calf on a plinth labelled growth. Beneath the plinth are offerings labelled ‘Planning Laws’ and ‘Oil Platforms’.Reeves is holding up another offering labelled ‘Third Runway’. She is chained to a a huge ‘Brexit’ troll behind her with a studded cudgel with which it is smashing things. The troll is laughing and saying “That’s it, Rachel, now try not to be so wooden and remember to smile when you pretend green aviation fuel is a ‘game changer’…”

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    Chris Riddell on Rachel Reeves’ burnt offerings to the golden calf of growth – cartoon

    A third Heathrow runway, planning law reform to build more houses and a windfall tax on oil and gas – but will it all make up for the cost of Brexit?

25 January 2025

  • Donald Trump as a storm cloud clutching lightning bolts labelled ‘Tariffs’ blowing a gale which is destroying buildings labelled ‘WHO’ and ‘Paris Climate Accord’ and freezing a ‘Davos’ sign. The storm cloud is labelled ‘Storm Trump’.

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    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, an ill wind that blows nobody any good – cartoon

    The US president threatens tariffs, leaves the World Health Organization and the Paris climate deal – all in his first week

18 January 2025

  • Donald Trump in an apron and Maga tie, Elon Musk clutching a pitchfork and Liberty looking in horror at them from a window in the house behind them in a new version of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting

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    Chris Riddell on the new American Gothic, starring Donald Trump and Elon Musk – cartoon

    What will become of liberty when these two take control of the United States of America?

11 January 2025

  • With the LA wildfires behind him, Donald Trump in a nappy labelled ‘MAGA’ pouring oil from an oil drum labelled ‘Fossil Fuel Industry’ on to the flames stretching off behind him into a huge fire labelled ‘Climate Change’. Trump is saying “Drill, Baby, Drill!”

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    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump pouring oil on to the climate crisis as Los Angeles burns – cartoon

    The president-elect is obsessed with drilling for fossil fuels, not to mention taking control of Canada and Greenland and renaming the Gulf of Mexico

4 January 2025

  • A diminutive Wes Streeting wearing thick gloves is pushing a lawnmower entitled ‘Department of Health (and social care)’ through long grass with a huge nettle in the middle distance. Streeting is saying “The nettle I’m grasping is the ‘Let’s all talk about a National Care Service’ nettle, the “How much it will cost” nettle is in the REALLY long grass…” A Boris Johnson lookalike garden gnome is captioned: "We will fix the crisis in social care once and for all - Boris Johnson, 2019"

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    Chris Riddell on Wes Streeting grasping the nettle of social care reform – cartoon

    The health secretary is geared up to tackle the thorny issue, but the sting lies in the question of cost

28 December 2024

  • Old Father Time presenting a shopping list to the infant ‘2025’, which reads “Genocide, Climate Change, AI, Global Recession…” Old Father Time is saying “On the bright side, President Trump has promised to make America great again, again…”

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    Chris Riddell on what little cheer lies ahead for 2025 – cartoon

    Genocide, climate crisis, global recession, Nigel Farage, AI… and the return of President Donald Trump

21 December 2024

  • On Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador. Beneath a caption that reads ‘Jabba the Trump’, Donald Trump as Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt, with Elon Musk as a sidekick and Nigel Farage as his pet. Trump is smoking a hookah pipe labelled ‘Tariffs’. Mandelson is dressed in a black cape with a red collar and is bowing low. Trump says “Anyone heard of this princess of darkness guy?” Farage says “Looks like a jumped up lackey with delusions of his own importance, your orange highness”. And Mandelson says “I’m here to kiss the ring.”

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    Chris Riddell on how Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Donald ‘Jabba the Hut’ Trump might go – cartoon

    The Labour peer, who has been appointed Britain’s US ambassador, meets Trump as Elon Musk and Nigel Farage look on

14 December 2024

  • A hooded figure wielding a scythe draped with the word spending review over austerity holds a thin rabbit labelled growth and says "bad news Rachel, it seems to have shrunk again" while a bowler-hatted figure counts five beans from a nearly empty jar labelled magic beans

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    Chris Riddell on austerity lurking beneath the guise of Rachel Reeves’ spending review – cartoon

    Britain’s economy is shrinking as the chancellor starts to examine how to cut public services costs

30 November 2024

  • Cartoon shows a red bus called the Starmer Unbendy Bus being driven along a bumpy road with a suitcase marked 'Transport Secretary' being thrown out. In the distance a blue Boris Bus trundles off with a blurb saying 'A cabinet minister resigning straight away - this would never have happened in my day'.

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    Chris Riddell on Labour’s Lawmaker Express. It is not for turning – cartoon

    The resignation of transport secretary Louise Haigh over a mobile phone offence is a bump in road for Keir Starmer

23 November 2024

  • keir Starmer asleep in bed clutching a pink rabbit cuddly toy labelled ‘Growth’. At the bedside are three monsters labelled ‘Government Finances’, ‘Energy prices’ and ‘Trump Tarriffs’. The first monster is saying “The farmers aren’t happy…”, the second monster is saying “The pensioners are furious…” and the third Trump monster is saying “…and I’m mad.”

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    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer clinging to growth while the stuff of nightmares gather round – cartoon

    The prime minister is assailed by unhappy farmers, angry pensioners and the spectre of Donald Trump’s second term
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