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Edward Heath and Anthony Barber enter the office of a civil servant and find him missing. An umbrella with a hat on it sit in his chair, with a sign attached to the umbrella reading 'Gone to Demo'.
Creator: Gibbard; Leslie, David (1945-2010); cartoonist

This cartoon depicts [Edward Heath] pointing at a woman who is being sat on by a group of men, who are labelled 'local bods', 'transport', 'banks' and 'shops'. On the floor next to the woman sits a basket and a book labelled 'decimals guide'.

[Political commentary associated with decimalisation]

Depicts Margaret Thatcher standing at the far end of the picture in a field with 'Incentive Experimental Farm' written on the gate. Geoffrey Howe is depicted sowing seeds, which are small pound sign figures, from a bag labelled '1979 tax cuts', another figure of Howe follows closely behind hoovering up the pound signs with a machine labelled 'National Insurance'. Two birds, 'VAT' and 'Price', hover in the bottom right of the cartoon.

Margaret Thatcher is shown on the commonwealth desk, fast asleep whilst others are looking very bored. On the other side is the IMF desk, where Geoffrey Howe is also asleep. Behind them is a house that is on fire. Smoke is seen coming through the windows, a bath is overflowing with water, and a cat is at a window scared for its life.

Man rests on red globe whilst smoking and bellowing a large cloud of smoke above his head as he is about to be engulfed in a large green tidal wave rising above his head. George Monbiot's Tuesday Comment article discusses those who deny climate change is happening, or believe its effects to be less severe than predicted by other scientists.

Depicts the Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham], along with two other business men, driving in a car drinking Champagne. The number plate reads 'Top 1', the men are waving merrily at a man emerging from 'Joseph's takeaways'. 'Joseph's takeaways' has a poster on the wall that reads 'Only six chips per customer by order', the car is driving through a puddle and splashing the man emerging from the chip shop. On the opposite side of the road Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson wave at the car as it passes under an awning that reads 'Chez Plowden'.

Context: Edwin Plowden was chair of the top salaries review body in Thatcher's government. The cartoon refers to the Government's decision to sanction big increases in top salaries.

D2466Illustration originally accompanying an article titled 'Goodbye to all this,' by Jonathan Freedland, originally published in The Guardian on 9 February 2000. It discusses the clash over the arguments over repealing Section 28. The illustration depicts a large tied scroll titled 'Section 28', and two men on a cliffside, with one man attempting to push it off and another attempting to keep it from falling off. Below them is a crowd of arguing people. Includes newspaper cutting.