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1984: Why is the place being monitored?

Hargreaves has missed the point of constant surveillance.

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1984: Can’t remember

In a vitally important scene in Bizet’s opera Carmen the world-famous Placido Domingo can’t remember his lines. The bearded speaker is worried about his wasted £40 per head. £40? Yes, but it was 35 years ago.

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1984: Some things never change

Larry isn’t that sympathetic to the lonely protester. Today there would be a crowd of them and plenty of television reporters.

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Excellent.

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1984: Changing fashions in the kitchen

Punch is here observing its traditional role in satirising a current fashion – this time in the kitchen.

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1984: Football sponsorship

It goes back a long way – at least 25 years as this cartoon shows.

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1984: A bit of whimsy

Not only animals are sometimes given human attributes. Here inanimate objects are given the same treatment.

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1987: Like master, like dog.

Here we have a variant on the joke about dog owners coming to look like their pets. The ’fag in the mouth’ look is assigned – improbably- to the bone in the dog’s snout.

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1985: A weak pun

The artist seems rather short of ideas here. Indeed, who want to pay £5.00 for a horse to be ‘shoed’ in this way?

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1985: The ageing process

I think that we all undergo the Myron process – sooner or later.