Stefan Gauci SciclunaStefan Gauci SciclunaPolitics & Policy

Cartoons

The week in one drawing.

Some arguments land harder as a picture. A running series of editorial cartoons on politics and policy, in Malta and the UK.

Editorial cartoon: a weary prime minister on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street holds a long invoice stamped Borrowed Votes, Payment Due, a removal van loaded with boxes behind him, voters at the gate holding banners reading We Only Lent Them, and U-turn road signs for Winter Fuel, Welfare and Farms scattered at his feet

The bill for borrowed votes

A landslide built on lent votes, and the bill that always comes due

Editorial cartoon: a circle of Labour MPs wearing red rosettes point and shout at their harried party leader, who stands in the centre with his hands raised, while a figure wearing a teal Reform rosette lounges in a deck chair eating popcorn

The circular firing squad

Labour debates how to save the government

A giant teal Reform rosette swinging as a wrecking ball into the Houses of Parliament, with a scoreboard reading Reform 381, Labour 85, Conservative 70

The teal wrecking ball

The first projection of 2026: a Reform majority bigger than every other party put together

A Prime Minister at the No.10 door staring at an approval dial that has crashed to a fifty-year low after fourteen months

Fifty-year low

Fourteen months in, the lowest approval any Prime Minister has had in fifty years

A weary voter trying to return a box labelled 2024 Landslide at a shop counter under a No Refunds sign

No refunds

A year on from the landslide, and there are no refunds at the ballot box

An empty chair at the cabinet table with a child's school bag on it

The empty chair

Deciding the future, with the one person who has to live in it left out of the room

A pensioner handed back her own coat

A gift, returned

Winter fuel: the coat taken last year, handed back as a gift

Main gate for established parties, side entrance for everyone else

Established parties only

New ideas and new voters, sent round to the side entrance

A taxi meter ticking over a crowded island of Malta

The meter is still running

Malta’s model of growth, and who keeps paying the fare

An aide measuring a victory podium against the last one

Historic, by the inch

Measuring this victory carefully against the last one

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