Rose, thou art sick

A suggested new logo for the UK’s Labour Party, which is now undergoing a statutory investigation by the EHRC into its institutional racism and discrimination against Jews, including its Jewish members and staff. The second party to face such an investigation after the BNP, a far-right, fascist party.

You can see more about how we arrived at this tragic, sickening point in this twitter thread

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

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D-day

Donald Trump is in the UK during the commemoration of D-day. The allies defeated the Nazis. They didn’t praise them as fine people as he did the white supremacists of Charlottesville. Here is the only D I think fitting. His father was arrested at a Klan rally.

Trumpty Dumbty

He keeps giving, only in the sense he keeps reaching new levels of dumb arrogance. The accusation that he is, through his Trump Tower Moscow, a compromised asset of Russia seems less and less unlikely with every new revelation.

He recently revealed the stupid design for his stupid border wall:

So I thought I would quickly add my own comment on it, here, this simple detail:

Three D

Trying to capture Donald Trump in a sketch, I eventually ended up with this. His father Fred was arrested following a Ku Klux Klan and NY Police related altercation in 1927.

Menswear

 

Taking liberties

 

‘There, I’ve taken it off, better?’

In Cannes, France, a woman was forced to disrobe on the beach as part of the temporary ‘burkini ban’ preventing ostentatious religious dress. France has been victim of a terrible deluge of Islamic terrorist attacks, but even so, to become more like the aggressor – introducing morality police dictating what woman should wear – is not to win against them.

Un-shellfish

Cartoon by Michael Fredman