Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
Cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New Statesman, The Guardian and more. My debut graphic memoir Cry When the Baby Cries is out now.
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Every time a Labour minister carps on about immigration, a labour voter dies and is resurrected as a Reform voter
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Every time a Labour minister carps on about immigration, a labour voter dies and is resurrected as a Reform voter
Is this logo in some way meant to summon the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci?
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Is this logo in some way meant to summon the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci?
I'm reminded of a line in The Twits by Roald Dahl.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'm reminded of a line in The Twits by Roald Dahl.
If you are left-brained you see a threat to the future of our planet. If you are right-brained you see a chance to make a quick buck.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you are left-brained you see a threat to the future of our planet. If you are right-brained you see a chance to make a quick buck.
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AWKWARD by Becky Barnicoat is 1 of 25 limited edition comics in the first VERY TINY COMICS ANTHOLOGY: MONSTER @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
🔵 Coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social on Nov 15 and 16 in a shiny retro gumball machine and a flurry of 22mm (1 inch) comics
🟡 Find it at Bubbleboy Hall, F13
🔵 Coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social on Nov 15 and 16 in a shiny retro gumball machine and a flurry of 22mm (1 inch) comics
🟡 Find it at Bubbleboy Hall, F13
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
AWKWARD by Becky Barnicoat is 1 of 25 limited edition comics in the first VERY TINY COMICS ANTHOLOGY: MONSTER @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
🔵 Coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social on Nov 15 and 16 in a shiny retro gumball machine and a flurry of 22mm (1 inch) comics
🟡 Find it at Bubbleboy Hall, F13
🔵 Coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social on Nov 15 and 16 in a shiny retro gumball machine and a flurry of 22mm (1 inch) comics
🟡 Find it at Bubbleboy Hall, F13
“All episodes available now” is such a TV red flag. If you had a great show you’d eke it out, make us wait for it.
It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.
It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“All episodes available now” is such a TV red flag. If you had a great show you’d eke it out, make us wait for it.
It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.
It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.
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As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.”
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.”
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
The BBC hold powerful, corrupt people like Farage, Musk and Trump to account, of course they want to destroy it.
Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The BBC hold powerful, corrupt people like Farage, Musk and Trump to account, of course they want to destroy it.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Featuring:
* Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social
* Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social
* Kristyna Baczynski
@kbaczynski.bsky.social
* Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
* Ria Grix
@grix.bsky.social
* Warwick Johnson Cadwell
@wocco.bsky.social
* Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social
* Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social
* Kristyna Baczynski
@kbaczynski.bsky.social
* Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
* Ria Grix
@grix.bsky.social
* Warwick Johnson Cadwell
@wocco.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Featuring:
* Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social
* Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social
* Kristyna Baczynski
@kbaczynski.bsky.social
* Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
* Ria Grix
@grix.bsky.social
* Warwick Johnson Cadwell
@wocco.bsky.social
* Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social
* Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social
* Kristyna Baczynski
@kbaczynski.bsky.social
* Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
* Ria Grix
@grix.bsky.social
* Warwick Johnson Cadwell
@wocco.bsky.social
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Well played, Merriam-Webster!
Well played.
Well played.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Well played, Merriam-Webster!
Well played.
Well played.
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power.
"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power.
"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭
September 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭
Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.
My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.
Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡
Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?
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THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
