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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2017
Edited by Tim Benson
(Random House Books, £12.99)
IN AN introduction lamenting the absence of women editorial cartoonists in the national press, Tim Benson offers the Morning Star a backhanded compliment as the “only daily newspaper that draws on the work of female political cartoonists.”
But he can’t resist the gratuitous barb that they work “unpaid” which indeed they, along with the paper’s many volunteers, do.
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