Matt Buck’s Hack Cartoons Diary https://hackcartoonsdiary.com Drawnalism, Digital Illustration and Animation from Cartoonist Matthew Buck Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:33:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 53094619 Ossification in the UK https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2025/11/27/ossification-in-the-uk/ https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2025/11/27/ossification-in-the-uk/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:33:26 +0000 https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/?p=10833 Ossification: – a tendency toward or state of being molded into a rigid, conventional, sterile, or unimaginative condition

The crisis of the West isn’t immigration. It’s immobility.

And that is the real story.

Politicians talk endlessly about who’s coming in. No one talks about who can’t leave.

– Adrian Monck – 7 Thin.gs Newsletter

Reading: There is a crisis of immobility in the United Kingdom

The reference made in the cartoon is well ossified itself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_sketch

You can watch the whole original joke from The Frost report of 1966 here

https://metro.co.uk/video/ronnie-corbett-s-classic-class-sketch-1278885/?ito=vjs-link

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1/ The “Special Relationship”: How American-British Elite Alignment Shaped Post-WW2 Britain, And The Silence At The Heart Of British Politics That Still Affects Ordinary Citizens ????

— Adrian Monck (@amonck.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T08:00:49.578Z
Cartoo of former UK prime Minister after Publication of Sir Robin Butler's Report into the given reasons for participating in the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. Cartoon by Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair features.

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Following an observation about the communication revolution and the benefits it offers like minded individuals operating across borders and jurisdictions.

https://bsky.app/profile/pmdfoster.bsky.social/post/3leyg24wfnk2q

You might call it free movement of would be authoritarian governments.

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A picture of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Illustrated by John Leech in 1843 and abridged by Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons for Drawnalism in December 2024.

]]> https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2024/12/24/gawd-bless-us-everyone/feed/ 0 10801 Death of a satirist https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2022/12/29/death-of-a-satirist/ https://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2022/12/29/death-of-a-satirist/#respond Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:38:25 +0000 http://hackcartoonsdiary.com/?p=10778 The death of John Bird at age 86 is very sad news for lovers of satire in the United Kingdom and the world and perhaps particularly for satirists, ‘resting’ like myself, or those still functioning day-to-day.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/john-bird-actor-and-comedian-dies-aged-86

Obituaries will do a better job than I can of explaining what and how Bird did what he did, notably in partnership with his long time partner John Fortune and latterly alongside impressionist Rory Bremer.

Do enjoy them.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/28/john-bird-obituary

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-bird-obituary-9dv223tqj

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64108691

John Bird and John Fortune – The Long Johns

Suffice to sign off by citing this particularly accurate two-handed piece about Euroscepticism in the UK. Many of us habe been living the consequences of this in my years.

The Long Johns – John Bird and John Fortune talk about Europe.

It is a fate of accurate satire that the jokes, ridicule, joy and recogntion so often go on to come to pass. The warnings can tend to be overlooked.

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  • PUB-OLYMPIAN-gym- © Matthew-Buck-at-HACK-Cartoons
    PUB OLYMPIAN – gym – © Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
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    PUB OLYMPIAN coach – © Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
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    PUB OLYMPIAN bars – © Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
  • PUB OLYMPIAN slalom - ©Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
    PUB OLYMPIAN slalom – ©Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
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    PUB OLYMPIAN syncronised slimming – © Matthew Buck at HACK Cartoons
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© Drawnalism Ltd

It’s been the story of our lives since the decision to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union.

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Book_cover_The_Lies_Of_The_Land_By_Matthew_Buck_at_HACK_cartoons

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