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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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The endgame and the legal defence, billionaire bunkers, fortress politics and the ECHR
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-by Willy & Bill for @northwestbylines.co.uk
'The Ballroom' - by dormouse
#climatechange #democracy #ECHR @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Colour pencil and ink drawing of Russian President Vladimir Putin holding US President Donald Trump by his tie and talking to him in his new White House ballroom, decorated in gaudy white and gold mock baroque and bedecked with crystal chandeliers. In the foreground two workmen in string vests, one with a name tag bearing the name Fred, are manoeuvring an impossibly long marble-top table on gilded turned legs, tied with a giant gift ribbon in the red, blue and white of the Russian flag. Conversation text says ' You might need a BIGGER BUNKER downstairs'.
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Where climate breakdown is pushing us, billionaire bunker fantasies and fortress politics, why the ECHR and Human Rights Act matter (pt 3) | Willy and Bill
The endgame and the legal defence, billionaire bunkers, fortress politics and the ECHR
Where climate breakdown is pushing us, billionaire bunker fantasies and fortress politics, why the ECHR and Human Rights Act matter (pt 3)
northwestbylines.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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It's #February again
A jar almost filled with coins, bearing a label with text 'F-Word-Free February Swear Jar'
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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northwestbylines.co.uk
While immigration services on Mars work overtime, one country on Earth again doesn’t fail to baffle and frighten us | Xylb-tok the Martian
Earth’s Follies: Week 50 – isolationism, space Haggis and Olympic goons
While immigration services on Mars work overtime, one country on Earth again doesn’t fail to baffle and frighten us
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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The Burnham saga: an overview of the avoidable drama Labour could’ve done without
By @northwestbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
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#Labour #Burnham #News
Three witches sitting around a bubbling cauldron inscribed with words 'BURN BABY BURN'. The witch on the left is holding a broom. The witch in the centre is dropping in an eye of newt and a wing of bat. The which on the right is breathing in the fumes and waving her arms about. Text above them says 'McSweeney shall never vanquished be until Great Burnham would to 10 Downing Street come against him'
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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In part two of our series on the climate crisis, we look at the climate migration myth and the political narrative that comes with it  | Willy and Bill
The migration myth and the political con, how the UK climate crisis gets blamed on immigrants
In part two of our series on the climate crisis, we look at the climate migration myth and the political narrative that comes with it
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Hubble Bubble
For @northwestbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
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#Labour #UK #politics
Three witches sitting around a bubbling cauldron inscribed with words 'BURN BABY BURN'. The witch on the left is holding a broom. The witch in the centre is dropping in an eye of newt and a wing of bat. The which on the right is breathing in the fumes and waving her arms about. Text above them says 'McSweeney shall never vanquished be until Great Burnham would to 10 Downing Street come against him'
January 28, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Happy #Caturday!
Matters of State (if cats ran the world) - Polina Sparks
for North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk #politics northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/mat...
A ministerial office room with yellow wallpaper and ochre curtains. A large white and tabby cat is sitting on the windowsill, with its back to the room, looking out. On top of an oak desk in the centre, a Siamese cat is stretching and shedding papers with its claws. Behind in, on the right, a grey tabby is sitting in a blue cardboard stationery box in front of a filing cabined, under a painting of a cat. On the left, a black cat with white socks is sleeping, curled up on a union flag patterned cushion in a leather armchair with a high back, from which a tortoiseshell cat is about to leap.
January 24, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Trump borrows a peace prize, threatens tariffs, forgets NATO, gold-plates the Rose Garden and eyes Greenland | Xylb-tok the Martian
Earth’s Follies: Week 49 – Peace Prizes, Protection Rackets and the Gulf of Me
Trump borrows a peace prize, threatens tariffs, forgets NATO, gold-plates the Rose Garden and eyes Greenland
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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In the first of this series, we show UK climate crisis is not a dystopian future; it affects food security, supply chains, flooding, insurance (Pt 1) | Willy and Bill
Are we in a climate dystopia, or just reading the small print of UK home insurance?
In the first of this series, we show UK climate crisis is not a dystopian future; it affects food security, supply chains, flooding, insurance (Pt 1)
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January 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Xylb'tok the Martian is building barriades @northwestbylines.co.uk
Earth’s Follies: Week 48 – Hecklers, fake Wikipedias and domes of delusion
northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...
#USA #Venezuela #Greenland #Mars
Xylb'tok, a three-eyed, multilimbed pink Martian hiding behind a barricade of made up of unidentified objects, chairs, cushions, a Martian globe, and a vicious bitey-looking purple cheeseplant, behind which his white spikey three eyed felinoid Grzz'lax is clutching a bowl containing a goldfishy-looking four-eyed lifeform.
January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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I conquer, therefore I am @northwestbylines.co.uk
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I conquer, therefore I am – the United States intervention in Venezuela
What is behind Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, and the kidnapping of its president? Is it oil, is it power?
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January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Peace In Our Time

Spare Change — cartoon series for @northwestbylines.co.uk
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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer trying desperately to sit on two chairs, as the one on the right, patterned like a US flag is being pulled away by President Trump who is being led by his tie by President Putin. Both are walking over Ukrainian and Greenland flags with President Trump stiffing a Venezuelan flag into his back pocket. Starmer's tie is caught in Trump's other hand which is dragging the chair, pulling him with it and forcing him to do the splits as, on the other side, the Ukrainian president Zelenskyy and various European leaders are holding onto the other chair, with the EU flag on it. In the foreground, the Danish PM Mette Frederiksen in a red blazer stands with her arms folded, looking worried. Caption text says 'Peace In Our Time'
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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#Impartiality
Ink drawing of BBC board member Robbie Gibb, a bald man in wearing blue trousers, a white shirt and a light blue tile with a union flag pattern is sitting on a raised bed in a doctor's office with a skeleton poster with lyrics to the song Dem Bones on the wall. The doctor is reading a scan, Caption text says 'I am sorry, Mr Gibb, but there is no sign of impartiality in your bones. But after a Conservative fracture, your spine is badly Reformed'.
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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#BudgetDay cartoon for North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
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Poster in the stye of the animated film 'The Nightmare Before Christmas", featuring the Chancellor with the red briefcase standing on top of a curling mound, kicking a person in a wheelchair off it, who is falling towards other people struggling it what looks like a cross between sea waves and burial mounds below. Behind the chancellor, rising against the dark sky like a full moon is a circular roundabout painted with the England St George's cross, surrounded by Reform UK style roundabout arrows. On the curved mound is a text following the curve, which says 'The multibillion Brexit Black Hole". Below is it a title text that says 'Rachel Reeves' The Nightmare Before Christmas'.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Reform UK’s success a mirage based on media hype?

Right-wing influencers and the media conspire to create an air of invincibility around Reform, but the recent trajectory is underperformance

By Alex Mair
@alexmairyorks.bsky.social
Is Reform UK’s success a mirage based on media hype?
Right-wing influencers and the media conspire to create an air of invincibility around Reform, but the recent trajectory is underperformance
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The 28 Point Peace Plan

For @northwestbylines.co.uk
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#Ukraine #UkraineWar
black and white ink drawing of President Trump, knife and fork in hand, sitting at a long table with Vladimir Putin on the other end, who is carving up a map of Ukraine. Caption text says 'Would you like to see the menu, Sir?'. In the foreground is a numbered menu, titled 'Peace Plan Special@. On the left hand page is item number 1: Give Putin everything he wants buffet. On the opposite, right hand page is the Desserts menu, listing options from 2 to 28.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Spare Change: a series for @northwestbylines.co.uk
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a spoof poster based on 101 Dalmatians, with Home Secretary Shabanah Mahmood, dressed in blue, looming menacingly over a frightened family of refugees: a male doctor in scrubs, a woman with glasses, and a group of children, one with a Paddington teddy bear. Text scattered across the poster's dark backgound says '101 Deportations. Starring Shabby as Suella Patel. With McSweeney's boys, Britains's best Reform tribute band. Sing along to classic tunes like Island Of Strangers, WHITE Cliffs of Dover, BLUE Christmas.'
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Defamation
Spare Change: a series for @northwestbylines.co.uk
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A TV reporter in a dark blue anorak speaking in to a microphone, with the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the background. Caption text says 'We are live outside the Albert Hall as President Trump sues the entire British media over repeated claims that Hitler has only got one ball'
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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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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