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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

Just to explain. I filed this cartoon around 11am, possibly my earliest ever. Four hours later, on a train to Liverpool I received an ominous phone call from the desk with the strangely cryptic message "pound of flesh"...

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Steve Bell

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7 months

Spiked again. It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for the Guardian now without being accused of deploying "antisemitic tropes".

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Steve Bell

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6 months

So glad I kept hold of my David Cameron stress toy

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

In case anyone is wondering where today’s If strip is it’s here

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Steve Bell

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7 months

I've managed to avoid providing roughs for most of the last 40 years. Unfortunately, since the Rowson squid business, the desk now arbitrarily demands to vet all jokes by 10:30am. I told them it takes me long enough to think up one idea, let alone alternatives, but to no avail

Pete Songi

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7 months

@BellBelltoons Did you supply a rough? Either way, the decision gave you no time to supply anything else. They went for Net Zero instead. Not exactly top of the news cycle.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

Here's one for #DrawTonyBlairsLegacy which has just been spiked by the Guardian.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

I'm sorry, I don't understand, I said and received this even more mysterious reply: "Jewish bloke; pound of flesh; antisemitic trope". Clearly it was self-evident, anybody could see it...

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

Can political cartoons survive in an age of sensitivity?

The career-ending depiction of Netanyahu by my old cartoonist Steve Bell raises many questions: was it antisemitic? Was it simply satirical? And has the right not to be offended trumped the right to...

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

6 months

Nice one Dave!

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6 months

Dave Brown on #SuellaBraverman #DavidCameron #RishiSunak #BravermanSacked #BravermanLetter #CameronReturns #Sunak #Sunackered #ToriesUnfitToGovern - political cartoon gallery in London

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

Exactly. And why on earth is he wearing boxing gloves?

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

Fascinating empty space where the ‘If’strip should be! #bringbackIF

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

1 month

Fired for a cartoon that turned out not to be antisemitic at all. Watch the podcast with Israeli cartoonists Uri Fink and Michel Kichka, Daryl Cagle and me

Steve Bell on Getting Fired for an "Anti-Semitic" Cartoon

Steve Bell, the legendary, British cartoonist who drew for decades for the Guardian newspaper in London, was abruptly accused by his editor of drawing an ant...

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

@cg_williams Contract ending has everything to do with budget cuts and nothing to do with Priti Effing Patel!

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

My family is trapped in Gaza. They're not the 'other team'

For the sake of our children and Israel’s children, it is time to treat the Palestinian people with the dignity and respect they deserve.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

The Grauniad haven't put it online yet, but here's what I did on the autumn statement

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

Musa Kart and 120 other journalists and cartoonists jailed in Turkey #FreeMusaKart #FreeTurkeyMedia

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

In case anybody is wondering where today's cartoon is, it's on my website at I thought it hit the spot, but what do I know?

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

6 months

�Sign and share this urgent petition calling for a #CeasefireNow in Gaza and Israel - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

Sign the Petition

#CeasefireNow: Open Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

I finally managed to get this monster up on my website in time for New Year!! #BozzasParty #BorisPullsitoff #Oligarchs #Chums

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

Forgetting about a change to the rota I filed this one by mistake, but they used it anyway. How can she be expected to run the economy when she can't control her own eyeballs?

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

5 years

Dominic Raab - the idiot’s idiot

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

In case anyone wonders what happened to today's 'If' strip, I fear it fell foul of the Grauniad's suicide guidelines. I attempted to explain that a sausage noose was not a serious method, but to no avail:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

Grauniad seems to have stopped retweeting my stuff, so here’s today’s effort…

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@Cartoon4sale

2 years

Steve Bell on #BorisJohnson #Partygate #PartygateFines #SueGrayReport – political cartoon gallery in London

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

When is someone going to challenge @tom_watson for Deputy Leader. Must be the most incompetent party fixer since Emperor Nero

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

Inside Culture with Mary Beard, Series 2: Episode 1: via @bbciplayer Drawing a new president under lockdown. About nine minutes in

BBC Two - Inside Culture, Series 2, Episode 1

Mary asks Armando Iannucci how comedians and satirists adjust to new regimes.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

@Brighti @MartinRowson I refuse to #DrawMattHancock ever again! (with apologies to Donald McGill)

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

More disgraceful nonsense from Emily Witless

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@shirleymush

4 years

This, in which @maitlis compares trade unions to coronavirus and suggests they have a “grip” “on the political process”, is nothing short of disgraceful.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

Today's cartoon is an old one. The one that should be up is here on my website: .

VivaVenezuela

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7 years

Was this banned by @guardian ? @BellBelltoons makes a #BREXIT comment on Queen Tess Clowns are NOT always funny! Poor JC .

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

Opinion | ‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

A 2018 piece by a Palestinian on what the phrase, which features prominently in anti-Israel protests, means to the activists who use it

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

I'm afraid today's cartoon didn't make it into the paper on any platform. You can see it online at:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

I forgot to attach the two beauties:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

6 months

Ensure Provision of Basic Humanitarian Aid to Civilians in Palestine- Israel conflict via @UKChange

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 months

Reinstate Andy McDonald MP, Advocate for Peace and Liberty via @UKChange

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

After Bozza's Party comes the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war. See the full story here, penguins, Kipling, sad tango music and all:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

"Half a glove, half a mask, No sanitiser. Off to the workplace of Death Rode the care worker. “Forward, the Care..."

Steve Bell on the Ministry of Coronavirus Truth – cartoon

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, addressed socially distanced staff at Birmingham’s Nightingale hospital via a giant video screen

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

1 year

I tweet this in solidarity with Martin:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 months

Reinstate UNRWA Palestinian Aid - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

@realDonaldTrump Go to Mars. Don't come back.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 months

In her search for truth, Hannah Arendt would have recognized the lies of Netanyahu, Putin and Trump

Philosopher Hannah Arendt understood the frailty of truth in an era when politicians lie as naturally as they breathe.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

What a terribly dangerous unelectable joke this man is:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

5 years

Thank God they managed to pixellate Adam's wedding tackle from my version of Michelangelo's 'God creating Adam' in the background. Saved!

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5 years

Legendary cartoonist Steve Bell @BellBelltoons on how he 'plunders photographs all the time' and that we're 'drowning in imagery' from a man who has drawn some of the greatest cartoons of all time #Assange #TheGuardian Saturday on @RT_com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

Latest shock video released by "Downing Street source close to PM"

Bozza's Party.mov

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

See this and thousands more at:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

This is one of the crazier jobs I've done lately

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7 years

Steve Bell's Brexit carnival float design, and the finished product on the streets of Valletta today. @BellBelltoons @LPTraveller

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

#labourpurge I called Tom Watson Fatarse on social media & I think my entire household has been disenfranchised!

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

Steve Bell's If … Priti Patel renames a remote Atlantic rock

Steve Bell’s If …

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

The brains are coming! No shit! Tonight's the night, Christmas University Challenge 7pm BBC2

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@gusunger

7 years

22nd Dec, 19:30, BBC2 I will be on Christmas University Challenge!

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@BellBelltoons

7 years

The march of the brains continues tonight, BBC2 7:30pm Xmas University Challenge semi finals

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

How Trump's tie was forged in hell...

Benjamin Hart

@realaxelfoley

7 years

I was a few feet away from this in a boat last week. One of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

It took a while to find but here it is: If ... Theresa May: Roast Orange Turkey

Steve Bell’s If ... Theresa May: 'nothing has changed'?

Steve Bell’s If ...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

Just rang Martin to explain that I had asked him to fuck off in good faith (I was lying) and we must unite against rancourousness

Martin Rowson

@MartinRowson

8 years

All right all right. @BellBelltoons just phoned me and we're cool on all fronts. Hello Twitter. I will now go away again til I'm back.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

@bobscartoons What did public healthcare ever do for you? Bob, stop being a moron and give your cult the boot

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

@JohnRentoul John, you old dead smear horse, if the DUP can sit down with Gerry Adams why on earth should it have a problem with Jeremy Corbyn?

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@BellBelltoons

7 years

It was credited to Tony Blair: Steve Bell’s If ... Tony Blair's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Steve Bell’s If ... Tony Blair's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Steve Bell’s If ...

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

1 year

Unusually sympathetic cartoon from 1989 of a Conservative minister, Peter Brooke, who got the peace process going in NI and has just died

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 months

Awwwwwwwwww!!!!

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@Cartoon4sale

3 months

Peter Brookes on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #LabourParty #28Billion #GreenPolicy #GreenPledge #FlipFlop #Environment #ClimateCrisis – political cartoon gallery in London

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

#DrawTonyBlairsLegacy It's not as if they have never published the same metaphor before. Here are seven examples, from 2004

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

1 year

This is a stunningly good cartoon

Martin Rowson

@MartinRowson

1 year

No Graun toon from me tomorrow but instead by the frankly brilliant @EBaronCartoons - Christ but this is good

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

@MartinRowson Martin why don't you simply fuck off yourself? Just asking

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 months

That is truly horrible, but in a good way!

Dave Brown

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3 months

Tomorrow's @Independent cartoon... #Sunak #RishiSunak #DentalRecoveryPlan #NHSDentistry #KemiBadenoch #ReesMogg #LizTruss #SuellaBraverman #LeeAnderson #30pLee #ToryInfighting #ToryChaos #ToriesUnfitToGovern

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

Is it my imagination or is Ian Hislop a pompous little turd?

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

Bizarre how R4Today feels need to edit guest editor Michael Sheen "These are his views"(NOT Nick Robinson's)

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

5 years

@michaelwhite The most accurate piece I’ve read on Watson in a long time. You need to review your own nonsense Michael

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

I'll vote for him!

keith flett

@kmflett

3 years

Keir Starmer: image update to address poll issues. A glimpse of one possibility that Beard Liberation Front experts rejected as being 'too organic'

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

I think he's just wiped the floor with Brllopad!

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

#safesocialdistancing

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@BellBelltoons

3 years

#DrawTonyBlairsLegacy

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

@tom_watson @UKLabour I activated my My Labour account and all I got was a lousy picture of Tom Watson

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

@JohnRentoul @IndyVoices That's Absolute Bollocks

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@BellBelltoons

5 years

I wanted to call it 'Brexit Bollocks' but good taste prevailed. In the Grauniad's foyer at King's Place, York Way, London N1 9GU

NetteMills

@nettemills

5 years

Was on a course at the Guardian today, love all the Brexit cartoons in the foyer by @BellBelltoons

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE! Imagine: Steve Bell draws Corbyn and Watson as John and Yoko – video

Imagine: Steve Bell draws Corbyn and Watson as John and Yoko – video

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell draws Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson at Labour’s party conference in Liverpool

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

Steve Bell's If … The Murdoch clan hope Theresa May will come through for them

Steve Bell’s If …

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

7 years

Brilliant Gary Younge piece:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

Even though we're currently in dispute with a fox who insists on offensive strategic crapping on our wall, I don't believe in culling the urban foxy beasts! London borough councils: No to the culling of urban foxes - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

Sign the Petition

No to the culling of urban foxes

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

All the latest Goat Madness set to music at:

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

NO STRONG LANGUAGE: Steve Bell sketches Theresa May at the Tory party conference – video

Steve Bell sketches Theresa May at the Tory party conference – video

Steve Bell sketches Theresa May during her closing speech at the Conservative party conference

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

9 years

#snoutrage I understand that the pig is remaining tight-lipped

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 months

You have to remember that Iran are part of the axis of evil, or was it the axle of elvis?

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@EBaronCartoons @guardian @BellBelltoons @MartinRowson Double standards at work again ...but I think you've found that out already.

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 months

OFFICIAL Gaza Healthcare Workers Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2024 - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

And some more from 2011 #DrawTonyBlairsLegacy

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

Steve Bell on Boris Johnson facing a no-confidence vote – cartoon

Boris Johnson is to face a vote of no confidence on Monday evening after the threshold of 54 letters from Conservative MPs seeking his departure was reached

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

4 years

I should have said: Joe Bell's latest lockdown music 'When You're stuck Indoors...' set to goats

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

3 years

#DrawTonyBlairsLegacy

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3 years

#DrawTonyBlairsLegacy

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5 years

Labour Party National Executive Committee: A Vote of No Confidence in Tom Watson MP as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party - Sign the petition! via @UKChange

Sign the Petition

A Vote of No Confidence in Tom Watson MP as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

www.change.org

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

Steve Bell on the Boris Johnson’s Ukrainian Cossack painting – cartoon

Steve Bell on the Boris Johnson Ukrainian Cossack painting – cartoon

The PM has been officially inducted into Ukraine’s Cossack community, as two local artists have painted a picture of Johnson dressed as the Cossack Mamay as thanks for his during the Ukraine-Russia...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

@George_Osborne @bankofengland May I be the first to invite you to fuck yourself?

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

5 years

@tom_watson You weren’t saying that when you were purging and scourging lefties back in 2015-16

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

2 years

How to be a cartoonist, with the Guardian’s Steve Bell

Learn how to source ideas for cartoons, develop them, and even make money from them, in this inspirational and informative masterclass with the Guardian’s long-standing cartoonist, Steve Bell

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Bell

@BellBelltoons

8 years

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this