Maggie Smith gets politely vulgar – Poland 2021

Maggie Smith gets politely vulgar – Poland 2021

A: Author: Jarosław Kubicki, source,accessed 13.11.2021 What do we see here? A: On poster A we can see an elegant English lady, well-dressed in an old-fashioned way, smiling lightly and confidently (the image of Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham played by...
Alexander Lukashenko in his helicopter – Belarus 2020

Alexander Lukashenko in his helicopter – Belarus 2020

What do we see here? All the photos above were taken at a protest rally in Minsk, Belarus on August 30, 2020. At the end of the previous protest rally on August 23, 2020 when the protesters were already dispersing, Lukashenko arrived at his residence by helicopter....
Teddy bear guilty of corruption – Portugal 2022

Teddy bear guilty of corruption – Portugal 2022

What do we see / read? The mock article was published in January 2022 in a Portuguese spoof newspaper entitled O Inimigo Público (The Public Enemy), which is a weekly supplement of the Público daily newspaper. Text of the article in translation: “João Rendeiro was...
Street parody performance in Finland 2016

Street parody performance in Finland 2016

Photograph by Loldiers  What do we see? In the forefront, a person dressed as a clown smiles between two police officers reaching her hand to offer a lollipop toward the camera. In the background, three other persons are also in full clown costumes while another...
Judge’s testicles – Slovenia 2021

Judge’s testicles – Slovenia 2021

What do we see? The cartoon shows the current Slovenian Minister of the Environment Andrej Vizjak squeezing the testicles of a judge (“sodnik” is the word for ‘judge’ in Slovenian). The cartoon is by Marko Kočevar and first published in the Slovenian daily Delo, on 5...