April 2007

April 6. Strip 183.
Marks and Sparks
This is the colloquial name for the Marks and Spencer chain of food and clothing stores. The epitome of respectable bourgeois retail. The Queen gets her underwear there. Not in person, of course, she probably has someone with the title of Lord High Undergarment Pursuivant to fetch it for her.

April 16. Strip 187.
Segway
I spotted my first rentacop on a Segway in the Cottonwood Mall, Albuquerque. It was too good an image to waste, so I imported it to Britain.

April 30. Strip 193.
UKIP.
UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, are a strange bunch - they have some perfectly valid points to make about Britain’s place in Europe, but don’t seem to be able to do it without frothing at the mouth. They used to have a constituency headquarters in Tunbridge Wells, and I’m not kidding, if you peered through the window it looked like the lair of a serial killer, with mad slogans scrawled on the walls and intricate collages of newspaper cuttings of Jacques Delors sellotaped to every available surface. If they do serve a purpose, it’s to drain the right-wing nutter vote from the Conservatives, and keep Labour in power.