
Boris Johnson was one of eight former Prime Ministers at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in central London on 10th November.
As tradition dictates he was by a long way the worst turned out. He messes his own hair up as a sort of trademark but on Sunday he appeared to be wearing a mop of hair. The reason he does this is to obscure a growing bald patch, a sort of unruly combover.
All that said his appearance in a life imitates art way is growing ever more similar to Steve Bell’s depiction of him. For those unfamiliar Bell draws Johnson as a naked bum topped by a mop of blond hair. In short an arsehole.
Steve Bell who was purged by the Guardian last year has a new book out from Verso carrying his last If cartoons for the paper, together with commentary. Its titled If Stands Up and has a thought provoking (for some) drawing of Starmer as a Crusader in Gaza on the front cover…


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