Letter of the week
Upstairs and downstairs
I KNOW exactly how Town Mouse feels (October 5). After living with me during her teenage years, my youngest daughter, in her first week at Durham University, inadvertently put her dirty washing into a tumble dryer instead of the washing machine. When her roommate asked how she’d managed at home, she replied: ‘One has staff.’ I know my place! Graham White, Oxfordshire
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The art of satire
AS someone whose job it is, in part, to analyse political cartoons—as well as to draw them—I was interested in Charles Harris’s piece on the role of visual satire). It was especially pleasing to see the work of Osbert Lancaster () acknowledged (together with Matt’s), as the ‘pocket cartoon’ too often is ignored in such studies.
