wiLbur's review of 2007
i know, i'm rather tardy with this, but the idea for putting my redundant topical cartoons from last year to some use only just occurred to me....and it is still january....

last year was the first year i've drawn many topicals -- a few of these were published in private eye, the spectator, prospect and the like, but it's a tricky business, you've got to be quick with it, i found, or the story could be dead in the water before you've sent it anywhere, or some other cartoonist'll beat you to it...

anyway, here are the cartoons...

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the wii was launched but had some initial teething troubles...



england's cricketers had a woeful winter tour and the search was on for a new opening batsman, amid problems with certain members of the team drinking rather a lot...

(geoff thompson (i think) beat me to this one in the spectator)



an examining board caused a fuss when it removed ancient history from its syllabus -- so it changed its mind...


the smoking ban was introduced in england, no smoking allowed inside in public places...



...and all public places, including churches, now by law had to display no smoking signs...



there was talk of a new cold war...



gordon brown took over as britain's prime minister...



and tony blair got a new job...



while brown basked in a short-lived honeymoon period, the opposition leader david cameron seemed to be trying a bit too hard...



in the autumn, loads of faulty toys were recalled to china...



britain's cattle were hit by bluetongue disease...


our troops were battling it out in iraq and afghanistan, but there was plenty of gunfighting going on at home, too..



california was ravaged by forest fire...



and as the smoking ban bedded in, the economy began to show signs of weakening..


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it's not supposed to be a comprehensive review of the year, it's just whichever events i happened to make a cartoon about....
and that's probably quite enough of that!