MOST welcome in print and online this year have been new cartoonists Henny Beaumont, Steve Ashman and Jamie-Max Caldwell, who've displayed great flair in ridiculing the pathetic bunch of Tory has-beens that has misgoverned Britain over the last decade.

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We also owe a debt of gratitude to the “old hands” who have been with the Star for some time, with a level of generosity and solidarity only surpassed by the venom that they put into their cartooning.

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Next year will present them all with new challenges, from privatisation of the NHS to Brexit, from endemic poverty to employment and union rights and from climate change to a possible general election.

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The wealth of talent expressed in the rich variety of individual styles on display are a taster for the sharp-edged satire we can look forward to in the next 12 months.

Long may it continue.

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