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Dormouse
@dormousediaries.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, #BylinesNetwork, occasional artist, writer and sketcher of things. Likes tea and books. Sometimes hibernates.
Living with #LongCovid
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Not new. But plus ça change...
TV presenter in front of a Breaking News banner with sub-header 'news Broke' and text 'It's 2040. Half of the UK population is sick, and East Anglia is under water. Are the 2020 lockdowns to blame? Dick Drivel investigates.'
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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An outline of a young female form copied from Trump's alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein with text that says 'Of course child abuse and sex trafficking are terrible things but we really don't want Trump tariffs', signed 'the UK'.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#PensionReview
Ink cartoon of two travellers stopping in the desert with their camels, watching an oasis of palm trees in the distance, above which hovers the word 'Pension'. Caption says 'That's a mirage. We#ll die before we get there".
July 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dignity
Spare Change - cartoon series for @northwestbylines.co.uk
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#TakingThePIP
Prime Minister Keir Starmer in shirt sleeves, picking between two suits on hangers, one with a red tie, one with a light blue tie, kicking a man in a wheelchair out of the window with his foot. Quote text above him says 'Handouts don't nurture the same sense of dignity as work'. Cartoon by Dormouse.
June 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Déjà vu from January 2021.
"They are now British fish and they are better and happier fish for it" Jacob Rees-Mogg
A food serving counter, with an inspription over the archway 'Ye Olde Happy British Fish', a blackboard with text 'Unread DEAL OF THE DAY' and a collection of dishes including something very fishy, Eels a'la Mogg, Flounder de Pfeffel, Codswallop, Fresh Pollocks served with a reduction of workplace rights, Boatsman's pickle, Fisherman's Foes, Gentleman's relish, and stuffed urchins, with a sign 'No free school meal vouchers accepted'. At the back is an image of Nige Farage in a flat cap dangling a bloater with union flags for fins from a fishing rod inscribed with text 'Finest British Sovereign Tea'.
May 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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🙌 HAPPY

🙌 5th

🙌 BIRTHDAY

🙌 YORKSHIRE

🙌 BYLINES!

Please share - and make sure you’re following 💥 @yorkshirebylines.co.uk💥
Five years of truth-telling: Yorkshire Bylines celebrates its lockdown legacy
Born in lockdown, Yorkshire Bylines turns five – still speaking truth to power with citizen journalism rooted in Yorkshire’s voice
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April 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Happy 5th Birthday to Yorkshire Bylines, @yorkshirebylines.co.uk, the oldest of the 10 @bylinesnetwork.co.uk publications!
#HappyBirthdayYorkshireBylines from NWB 🐝
To celebrate, you can help support independent regional #journalism here bylinesnetwork.co.uk/donate/
A worker bee buzzing around a cluster of white roses
April 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The Cuts
#SpringStatement #Labour #WelfareNotWarfare
The Chancellor. a brown haired woman in purple shows off a red party T-shirt to two colleagues, one on the right of her in blue, and one on the left of her in red. The t-shirt is printed with text that says 'Proud to be the party of CUTS'. Dialogue text underneath says 'It's very good, but it's missing something'
March 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Spare Change - Cartoon Series for @northwestbylines.co.uk

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#DisabilityBenefits #SpringStatement
The Chancellor standing in a hospital ward raising her arms to stop a hospital worker pulling in a bed through the door. Speech text says 'No, we don't need beds on this ward' On the back wall are two direction arrows, one to the left marked Job Centre the other to the right marked Assisted Dying. Two woman, one in a wheelchain, another in a hospital gown walking with a drip are heading in the direction it points to, off to the right.
March 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The "moral imperative" bit did sound familiar
(another government, 2024) #DisabilityBenefits
March 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Hung out to Dry
For @northwestbylines.co.uk
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Spare Change - cartoon series
#DisabilityBenefits @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
The UK Chancellor and the Work and Pension's Secretary talking in front of a washing line on which disabled people are hung out to dry, held up by their shoulders with red clothespegs. Speech text says 'They look like they have the broadest shoulders'
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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The Clue is in the Name
Spare change - cartoon series for @northwestbylines.co.uk
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#Labour #DisabilityBenefits
An older woman standing and a younger woman in a wheelchair open a door to a young male Labour candidate wearing a blue suit and a red rosette, flanked by two canvassers, one male, one female. His speech text says 'We are the party of workhouses... I mean, workfare... I mean, hard Labour! Look, the clue is in the name.' Nearby, behind the door, a tabby cat is tearing a bird apart, feathers flying.
March 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Elon Musk’s arm gestures are reminiscent of the Nazi salute, and ignite widespread controversy

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Elon Musk and the fascist salute controversy
Elon Musk’s arm gestures are reminiscent of the Nazi salute, and ignite widespread controversy
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February 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19? | Anne Marie McConway
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‘Airborne’ seems to be the hardest word
Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?
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February 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Welcome to #February
A jar filled almost to the top with coins, with a label that says 'F-word-free February Swear Jar
February 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism. Support our crowdfunder here - or just read and share our articles!
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Reviving the Animal Spirits

for @northwestbylines.co.uk

''Britain must learn from President Trump's 'positivity' if it is to revive the 'animal spirits' and turn the economy around, Rachel Reeves has said." The Times, 25 January 2025
Reviving the Animal Spirits for @NWBylines ''Britain must learn from President Trump's 'positivity' if it is to revive the 'animal spirits' and turn the economy around, Rachel Reeves has said." The Times, 25 January 2025
January 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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All the things under the Sun
For @northwestbylines.co.uk
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Ink drawing of UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves sitting at a desk with flags behind her, as in her press photos, holding a mug in one hand and pointing with the other, as she talks to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The mug bears an inscription 'Trump Kool Aid' Caption text reads 'And if we stopped paying those sickness benefits... imagine how many potholes we could fill... Make the trains run on time...'
January 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Pen drawing of a hospital with people queueing for Accident and Emergency on the lift and for Job Centre Plus on the right. In the centre, a security guard holding a temperature scanner is stopping a man coming in with a Zimmer frame. Caption text says 'Sorry, sir, we first need to test you for Trump positivity'
January 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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That time again
A young woman in a yellow top and dark waistcoat with pockets rifling through a box of items on a table talking to a young woman wearing a pink top, leggings and a hearing aid, knitting on the sofa, various art and craft materials around it. Dialogue text says '- I just can't find my cigarette paper! -Have you looked between Tory and Labour benefits rhetoric?
January 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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An assortment of surreal characters, starting right to left, a shapeless pink thing with googly eyes, a navy lampshade, a perplexed-looking Dalek-like podium, topped with a squashed orange with a yellow wiggly on its head and a cross between a rook and a saucepan. Text says 'And the mome raths outgrabe'
January 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Many people think that as you get older, you care less about politics. But it’s not true.

You start thinking a lot more about the kind of world you want to leave behind. You want it to be better than the one you were born into.

We all have a personal legacy in mind. Mine is to outlive Trumpism.
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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November 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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And our second poem for almost poets day:
With the world in darkness, what may come out of it all?

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Out of this darkness
With the world in darkness, what may come out of it all?
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November 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Happy POETS Day.
For anyone who needs this. northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/fe...
From @nwbylines.bsky.social
Fear
Fear, hate and doubt – a poem
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November 15, 2024 at 9:18 AM