[youngian]

A last minute effort. Young Ones writer Ben Elton threatened a lawsuit against Mac's original cartoon of a double decker with BBC written on the side going over a cliff

[The Red Arrow]

Paul Dacre and the Hypocrites.

[Andy McDandy]

They're in a bind. On the one hand, it's Cliff, popular with the core readership and picked on by the hated BBC. On the other, they'd have been going through the bins faster than you can say "Mile End tube station" if they had landed the scoop. And if he'd been charged, let alone found guilty, they'd have been coordinating the mass album burnings with gusto.

[Bones McCoy]

They're in a bind. On the one hand, it's Cliff, popular with the core readership and picked on by the hated BBC. On the other, they'd have been going through the bins faster than you can say "Mile End tube station" if they had landed the scoop. And if he'd been charged, let alone found guilty, they'd have been coordinating the mass album burnings with gusto.

Not only that:

They've enjoyed close relationships with coppers who'd spill the story for a brown envelopes - but Leveson ruined that for everybody.

It's also awkward that the force in question is South Yorkshire - once the paramilitary wing of the Thatcherites, and a force that the tories have ricked embarassment to cover for on several occasions.

[Daley Mayle]

The schadenfreude the Mail's enjoying at the expense of the BBC has been tempered by the restrictions the judge's ruling will have on the press reporting details about police suspects.

Christopher Jefferies anyone? The Mail ended up being sued for libel.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The schadenfreude the Mail's enjoying at the expense of the BBC has been tempered by the restrictions the judge's ruling will have on the press reporting details about police suspects.

This post has been condemned by Jacob Rees-Mogg for using filthy forrin language.

[youngian]

Someone found a gold nugget panning in a Scottish river. This doesn't explain why the family are endangering themselves on the hard shoulder or walking 500 miles.

[Big Arnold]

I like the way she's holding a newspaper in case they forget the reason for the journey.

[youngian]

Even Mac is struggling to fly the flag for Brexit

[bluebellnutter]

It was thoughtful of them to put up a big sign showing the way to the negotiations. Obviously a legacy from when David Davis never bothered going.

[The Red Arrow]

And names on the briefcases. Thomasesque.

[Watchman]

Well without the names; I was pondering why Geogre Osborne was leading the parade!

[youngian]

Mac's gone for the scourge of mobile phones two days running. The first one's quite funny (did he nick it from somewhere?) while the second one has a very strange idea of what granddads (with 30 years experience of mobile phones) to 14-year-olds look like nowadays.

[Big Arnold]

I wonder how many readers actually order copies of Mac cartoons. The Mail doesn't seem to realise they can be printed out from the website.

[The Red Arrow]

Interestingly, although per capita mobile phone ownership has apparently peaked in the U.K, neither the illustrator or his editor has mentioned the impact of new technology on where people get their 'news' and opinion from nowadays, or how much it's fatally eroding the M*il's sales figures/profits. Funny, that.