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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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#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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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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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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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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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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Reviving the Animal Spirits

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''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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Here we go again.
From North West Bylines @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social the last time round #MOTD
An ink and crayon drawing of three turnips seated in chairs around the BBC Match of the Day presenters table with the programme's logo in the background. Text above them says 'We could use turnips...'
November 12, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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The clocks have gone back
For North West Bylines @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
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An ink and colour crayon drawing of a man reading a newspaper, wearing brown trousers sitting on a blue sofa, while in the background a woman is drawing curtains closed over a dark window. The newspaper carries headlines including 'Budget for Strivers, not Skivers' and 'Trump ready to challenge election result' Dialogue text says 'It only looks dark now because the clocks have gone back.' 'They have, haven't they.'
November 5, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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Drawing of a blue plaque lying rusting in the tall grass, amid weeds, mud and pieces of junk, an old boot and a mouse sitting on the edge. Text on the plaque says 'In this place on the 2nd of November 2024 was a historic victory won in a minor skirmish of the Great Conservative Culture War'
November 3, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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Plugging the £20bn budget black hole
#disability #BenefitsReform #DWP #LabourConference
For North West Bylines @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
A drawing of the UK chancellor pushing a wheelchair into a hole in te ground in the shape of £20 BN filled with ill and disabled people, as a yellow DWP truck with a scoop tramps them down. A minister stands to the right holding a banner with text 'Work makes you free'. At the bottom of the picture a government special advisor is holding a paper on a clipboard titled 'Report' Visible text on it says 'Long-term sick must be made to... work'
September 24, 2024 at 7:15 PM