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The cartoon shows a starving, naked, African man with a swollen belly holding out a begging bowl. The caption below read "spare a bullet, Yanks". The landscape behind him is sparse with no visible vegetation.

The cartoon relates to the Nigerian civil war which was fought between the federal government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra in the years 1967-1970. During the civil war approximately 2 million Biafran citizens died of starvation, as the Nigerian federal government used starvation as a weapon of war. The United States of America was officially neutral during the Nigerian civil war. However they also had a vested interest in keeping communism out of the region, and this was more likely under the Nigerian federal government.

Boxes, tapes, and TVs labelled 'BBC', 'BBC Glasgow' and 'Seized' pile high everywhere. In front of a door labelled 'Special Branch' sits a man at a desk labeled 'Detective Inspector' who is writing a letter. Behind him a picture of Margaret Thatcher is taped to the wall.

Context: The Special Branch raided the BBC's Glasgow office and confiscated materials from their Secret Society series. Margaret Thatcher denied involvement, but the Opposition were not convinced. (Source: The Guardian 2 February 1987 via Proquest and Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus).

Depicts a man holding a flag labelled 'GUVMINT' sat on top of a pile of [flammable material]. The 'NUM', 'ASLEF', 'POWER WORKERS' and 'BBC' attempt to ignite the pile.

An elephant labelled '10.9% INFLATION' is stepping on someone on the floor trying to move, who has 'BUSINESS' written on the floor next to him. Someone with a whip is holding a hoop up for a lion to jump through that says '7%' in the centre. The lion is standing on a podium with 'LOCAL GOVT.' written on it. Margaret Thatcher is in the middle smiling at everything while in the background there is a frowning crowd looking on at it all.

[Harold Wilson] is watering a garden when a bag, labelled '12 1/2 p.c.' drops on his head, knocking his pipe out of his hand. The bag is being dropped by a man in a hot air baloon, which is shown to have several punctures and holes in it. In pencil, Gibbard has made a note that it was 'used as basis of St Le Monde editorial next day'.

Depicts two trains passing by each other with Neil Kinnock (dressed as a woman) on one train, depicted in a luxury train carriage reading an Agatha Christie novel. Another train is speeding past the window of this carriage and in this train you can see a man depicted as the National Union of Railway men with "Pay Pound" written on his front. He sits with with politicians such as Margaret Thatcher (holding poison), Norman Fowler (holding a knife) and a man in a pin stripe suit strangling the man depicting the Union.

Context: Rail Strikes happened over weeks bringing london traffic to a standstill, over issues of pay rises and eventually the government accepted for the pay rises of 8.8% to proceed.

A long line of ordinary people are walking from lef to right in a forest setting; the first person they meet is the smiling Anthony Barber handing out money next to a sign saying "Collect here" from a chest labelled "6d off"; they continue happily on until they reach the next tree which has a sign saying "Pay here", behind which Keith Joseph wields a club saying "National insurance" to bash the ordinary people over the head and take the money back off them; a rich man smoking a cigar walks off scot free; both the key characters are dressed like Robin Hood or one of the Merry Men.

This cartoon consists of two panels. The first panel shows Roy Jenkins as a witch holding a wand in the shape of a pound symbol. In front of him is a poor and unhappy looking family, a pumpkin and six rats with "Package tour operators" written beneath them. In the next panel the pumpkin and rats have gone and have been replaced by a tour bus with the words "'70s Holidays Unlimited" written across it, which the family are now sitting in and looking happier. The cartoon is a parody of the Cindarella fairy tale and represents how Roy Jenkins abolished the fifty pound restriction on travel allowance.

Margaret Thatcher is being carried in a sedan chair marked 'Thatcherism' by the cabinet and the Tory Party, the latter of whom has dropped the chair in shock at having just knocked down and stepped on the Unemployed in their procession (all of these personified as individual figures). A milestone reads 'To Boomsville. Not much farther - honest!'.

Context: the cartoon appears to suggest that the Tory Party is starting to have doubts about the economic benefits of Thatcherism, particularly on the unemployed.

A Shell-BP oil tanker is drifting close to shore and is leaking black oil into sea, as the oil is spread across the sea it makes the shape of a dollar sign. The oil is crashing onto shore covering the big letters on the beach saying "City". On the beach are seagulls which are dressed in ties and bowler hats, some are dripping oil.