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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com (yes, I did pick a good time to take a holiday): www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … David Beckham’s heroics for England v Greece, 25 years on
Our cartoonist on the 25th anniversary of the England midfielder’s one-man rescue act
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
David Squires on … the Manchester City verdict and Nations League tensions
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David Squires on … the Manchester City verdict and Nations League tensions
Our cartoonist on the Premier League’s ruling finally being revealed and Israel v Republic of Ireland * Buy a cartoon | Some of David’s favourite works * And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … a big weekend for controversial calls in the Premier League
Our cartoonist on the English top-flight leading the way for debatable decisions and performative sadness
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the art of the transfer deal
Our cartoonist looks through the ages to chart the evolution of the football transfer into its modern construct
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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's #FrankensteinDay Yay 🥳 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … new managers causing a stir before Premier League’s return
Our cartoonist on the nine fresh faces in club dugouts and their potential impact as they begin work
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the masochistic life of a Football League fan
Our cartoonist welcomes the EFL back, with returning characters and a look at what it’s like as an exiled supporter
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Gianni Infantino clinging to power as his Fifa empire crumbles
Our resident cartoon imagines some of the crisis talks at Fifa as its president scrambles for support after a botched World Cup plan
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How’s your Friday going?
Infantino riding a bomb.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some of the people, moments and aquatic birds that made the 2026 World Cup: www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the notable people and big moments from World Cup 2026
Our cartoonist looks back at the big stories and headline-generating characters at the biggest World Cup ever
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Spain winning the World Cup final in the shadow of Trump
Our cartoonist looks back at the final game of the 2026 World Cup as Donald Trump watched Spain triumph again
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Trevor is ainm dom @trevorlfc01.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Saved this one for such an occasion
A blue and white striped flag with a crying face emoji
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com on England’s high wire act: www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … England’s high-wire act continuing to the World Cup semis
Our cartoonist sets the scene before the semi-finals, with Thomas Tuchel’s team taking on old rivals Argentina
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
Skegness is so bracing but I've made him into Count Binface and it says Clacton is SO Binface
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … England’s World Cup classic in Mexico and a Trump novelty
Our cartoonist looks at the latest major stories from the World Cup as England reach the last eight but the US slump out
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Farage’s Reform UK & newcomer Restore Britain have gone to war…not just over Makerfield by-election but claims of a ‘quid pro quo’ by Farage & Johnson bankrolled by Harborne. @thenerve.news investigates the hidden history of Brexit & the £££ behind it 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...
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Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?
Part two of the Nerve’s investigation into Christopher Harborne’s influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, l...
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Here’s my latest cartoon for @faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-squire...
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David Squires dives into the comedy of the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival
In his latest Far Out comic, David Squires dives into the Erie Canal Soda Pop festival. The Doors, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, and Canned Heat all saw carnage.
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … World Cup penalty pain for Germany and the Netherlands
Our cartoonist on the latest knockout drama as Jonathan Tah does a Chris Waddle and Casemiro has a brat summer
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 26/06/2026
Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.
The Café and The Coffee Shop in Tesco will be offering one free Kids Hot Meal Deal, Kids Breakfast or Kids Pick ‘n’ Mix deal with any full price adult purchase when they scan their Tesco Clubcard. **The adult purchase could be something as small as an apple costing just 65 pence.** And with no limit to the number of Kid’s meals you can redeem, families of all sizes can benefit too.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/06/2026
David Squires on … the big names putting on a show at World Cup
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David Squires on … the big names putting on a show at World Cup
Our cartoonist on the heroes, villains and superstar performances in week two of the tournament
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If Starmer goes it will be five PMs in four years. Unprecedented?! No. The post pandemic 1920s saw a new challenger party, and a tousled haired, lecherous, corrupt leader succeeded by a burst of PMs. Five PMs… from three parties …. in two years and a month.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Fascinating analysis in the FT on Britain's two voting blocs giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Obvious conclusion: the Leave bloc is melting faster thanks to ageing. The Conservatives are in deep trouble if they remain stuck there
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … a thirst for adverts and other notes from the World Cup so far
Our cartoonist offers up some observations after the tournament’s group games got under way in the US, Mexico and Canada
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Really important that this story gets out there. Classic Kremlin disinfomation and smear campaign and lots of people even on this site fell for it. inews.co.uk/news/starmer...
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Starmer was targeted by sex worker conspiracy straight from Putin's playbook
It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you have been using X over the last year, you are likely to have seen claims that rent boys were behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's former homes and car We charted how the *completely false* conspiracy theory spread from far right 'patriots' and conspiracists inews.co.uk/news/starmer...
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Starmer was targeted by sex worker conspiracy straight from Putin's playbook
It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This Day in Labor History: June 11, 1352. Trials were held against laborers from Wiltshire, England who had violated a 1349 ordinance that decreed that all laborers must accept the wages they had received in 1346. Let's talk about how surviving workers of the Black Death wanted to get paid!
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the World Cup reimagined as Gianni Infantino’s West Side Story
As football’s greatest spectacle comes to North America, our cartoonist creates a heartwarming narrative around the Fifa president
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Arsenal staying positive after penalty pain against PSG
Our cartoonist on the Champions League final, some joy in Europe for English teams and Arne Slot’s sacking
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the only way to mark Arsenal’s Premier League title
Our cartoonist reflects on the Gunners ending their 22-year existential crisis to become English champions again
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
They certainly had his number.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/
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Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?
The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the ...
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Celtic crushing Hearts’ hopes of a Scottish fairytale
Our cartoonist on the unbridled joy and soul-crushing pain that followed the Scottish Premiership title decider
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/05/2026
Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk
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British Political Spectrum Quiz
Find out where you sit on the British political map across six dimensions.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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