Tim Benson, Britain’s leading authority on political cartoons, compiled an anthology of Britain’s Best Ever Political Cartoons in 2021. He also edits an annual cartoon compilation, and the most recent edition, Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2025, was published in October last year.
The best cartoon in the collection is the one on the cover: a Morten Morland cartoon inspired by James Gillray’s famous satirical print The Plumb-pudding in Danger, which depicted Napoleon and William Pitt literally carving up the globe. In Morland’s version, the two statesmen are replaced by the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. (Morland’s cartoon was first published in The Times on 9th January 2025.)
The best cartoon in the collection is the one on the cover: a Morten Morland cartoon inspired by James Gillray’s famous satirical print The Plumb-pudding in Danger, which depicted Napoleon and William Pitt literally carving up the globe. In Morland’s version, the two statesmen are replaced by the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. (Morland’s cartoon was first published in The Times on 9th January 2025.)