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Boris Johnson at the Cenotaph. Ever closer to Steve Bell’s caricature

In Uncategorized on November 10, 2024 by kmflett

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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