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Man with television screen showing large mouth instead of a head putting two men into bins with US flag on. George Monbiot's Tuesday Comment article discusses the US media being pressured by corporations into promoting the Republicanism.

Statue of Liberty shown smiling as several protesters holding placards fall to the ground. George Monbiot's Tuesday Comment article discusses the use of anti-terrorism laws to stop people protesting in public.

Large grey face having neck tie tied up by 6 small figures. Article discusses the World Trade organisation talks held in Cancun and Pascal Lamay's remarks. Opines that if the poorer countries of the world were to unite in defaulting on loans owed to the richer countries they would be able to wield more power as a combined force.
Illustration to accompany Tuesday Comment - George Monbiot

The 'Tory Know-How' coach is stuck in a swamp. A large group of people try to push the coach out of the swamp. Inside the coach, Margaret Thatcher sits reading a map while John Major, almost entirely out of the window, kicks out a pound sign labelled 'Intervention'.

Comic strip style cartoon in which a worker at power plant is made redundant and throws himself off a bridge into a river but hits the [ground or dry river bed].

A Geoffrey 'Howetzer' fires 'Interest Rates', with 'Industry' clinging on, into the 'I.O.U. sphere', with 'Export Markets' in the distance. Keith Joseph stands by. However, an outline of its trajectory shows a steep fall back to Earth - Thatcher is denying that this represents a U-turn.

Context: Howe's budget was expected to mark a significant increase in taxation, and thus deflation. This shocked many Tory MPs and even ministers, at a time of a retracting economy and increasing unemployment.

Accompanies article 'The bitter battle that ended an era' and is captioned: 'The face that says it all'.

Illustration accompanying an article titled 'A year in, it's clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job' written by Jonathan Freedland, published in The Guardian on 18 June 2008. The article discusses Gordon Brown's failures during his first year as prime minister. The illustration shows a miniature Gordon Brown sitting in the prime minister's seat and writing. Cutting with published illustration supplied.