James Mellor
@JamesDFMellor
Award-winning #Cartoonist - Private Eye, Spectator, Critic, & Sunday Telegraph | Hon. Historian | Quins fan | Husband | Father | †
Happy 60th Birthday, @PrivateEyeNews. I've been a reader since I was a teenager (initially purely for the cartoons; nowerdays primarily for the cartoons) so am genuinely thrilled that my own work has appeared in the mag in the past couple of years. Thank you. Some favourites:
Trey Parker and Matt Stone getting a billion from Paramount and then dropping this. Great stuff. #SouthPark
"Oh, say can you see..." 🥲
We're at the stage where an adjudged rapist is hoping a convicted child sex trafficker can help end allegations of his pedophillia.
I didn't think scrapping the requirement for the UKIPO using a wax seal was a tragedy. But now I am of the view that every department should seal all of its documents using the ministerial seal to spite this guy.
Guarantee this will be met by the usual suspects with complaints about 'losing our traditions' & 'erasing our history'. It's a wax seal..... grow up!
Pleased to have a brace of cartoons in the summer edition of @TheCriticMag. One of them is even actually summery. Sort of.
The summer double issue of @TheCriticMag has gone to press. Standby for @HCH_Hill @CliveAslet @CSaumarezSmith @sarahditum @NLebrecht @HenryGJeffreys @JSMilbank @HannahJBetts @yuanyi_z @HJoyceGender @stephenpollard Jonathan Glancey & David Butterfield thecritic.imbmsubscriptions.com
To #RejectionIsland, to recover an unused cartoon and take part in a thought experiment.
Hmm. My version was less demure.
How does Donald Trump’s new scent, “Victory 45-47” ($249) stack up against the competition? In his latest Kvetchbook, Barry Blitt imagines the scents of Presidents past: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9-ak4e
Naturally. Anyone else might upset his boss.
White House: President Trump wants to personally make decisions on sanctions against Russia. U.S. President intends to take full control over the future course of sanctions policy against Russia, White House Press-Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated. "President Trump has been in…
Cake and Arse Party would be more fitting.
It’s not called Your Party!
This is what modern “decolonisation” looks like. Everyone gets a cut of the money except the actually colonised.
The UK Government's Human Rights Memorandum on the Chagos Surrender Bill says Chagossians have no right to self-determination, only Mauritians do! Shameful
It's too bad they never gave the Epstein Files to Pete Hegseth. We'd all have them by now.
Well...
BREAKING Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files, and that the names of other high-profile people did as well. In that meeting, Bondi told Trump that they weren’t going to release any more files and that…
Pleased to have a cartoon in the new Private Eye out today. Here's one of mine from the previous edition.
And wait for all this to blow over..?
Breaking news: The US House Speaker has shut the congressional chamber until September, as Donald Trump’s allies seek to contain a spiralling crisis over the administration’s handling of the Epstein case. on.ft.com/46sKypb
Why? The Tories need Young Turks with fresh ideas and a determination to remodel the administration of the state for the 21st Century—not old hacks like CleverlyGPT, who will do nothing but spit out anodyne platitudes based on whatever prompts the Civil Service gives him.
EXCL: Kemi Badenoch is reshuffling her shadow cabinet today. And she has persuaded James Cleverly, defeated leadership candidate and former Foreign and Home Secretary, to make a frontbench comeback
Boldly tackling the pressing matters of the day...😐
A national inquiry will be held into one of the most violent days of the year-long miners' strike in the 1980s. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said it will look into the clashes that involved police and miners outside the Orgreave coking plant in Rotherham in 1984…
Calling all British newspapers: I am available to review Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir. No fee required as long as you don’t edit out the swear words.
To #RejectionIsland to celebrate international gestures of goodwill.
Two things struck me from @danny__kruger’s contribution to a near vacant Parliament: 1) His courage to speak publicly and candidly about his Christian faith; and 2) His assertion that society stands to benefit if we but follow the lead of Jesus Christ. Refreshing stuff.
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.