In the late autumn of 1989, Steve Bell and I had lunch with a Romanian cartoonist on a visit to England courtesy of the British Council. We met in the basement of a now-defunct Italian restaurant in Clerkenwell, and although the Romanian had a translator with him, his lack of any English and his very small smattering of French meant that things hardly got off with a swing. So, to [...]

On 25 January, George Galloway MP is due to open "Misunderestimating the President", an exhibition of cartoons of George W Bush, at the Political Cartoon Gallery in central London. As I write this, the duly elected member for Fallujah is still languishing in the Celebrity Big Brother house; I can only pray that he will be kicked out in time. However, this exhibition is a source of embarrassment to me [...]