The Legend of Lord Snooty and His Pals

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One of the most significant changes in British family life took place on 25 August last year. That was the day Dennis the Menace's dad changed his hairstyle. Now it is nearly as spiky as his son's. For the previous 50-odd years it had consisted of stubble above a floridly furious face and Hitler moustache as, traditionally, he lost his temper big time on his wayward son's long-suffering bottom. "Historically all the authority figures in the Beano looked the same," says Mike Stirling, editor-in-chief of the Beano. "The simple reason is, they were all modelled on the managing editor from the 1950s." He must have been a riot. Like much in the Beano, Walter has changed: in the 1980s, he was a weed that Dennis could beat up – hardly politically correct or, more importantly, dramatically satisfying. No longer.

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Stringer, Lew (2 March 2016). "BLIMEY! The Blog of British Comics: Credit where credit's due". BLIMEY! The Blog of British Comics. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021 . Retrieved 19 September 2021.Unless of course you assumed a new, genuinely socialist party was understood by all so there was no need to mention it? a b c d e f g Watkins, Dudley D. (30 July 1938). Moonie, George (ed.). "Lord Snooty and His Pals". The Beano. No.1. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. p.3. The Beano eventually passed The Dandy 's sales by 100,000 copies. [55] but both magazines sometimes sold up to four million issues per week. [56] Watkins, Dudley D. (29 April 1939). Moonie, George (ed.). "Lord Snooty". The Beano. No.40. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.

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Drysdale, George (5 April 1947). Moonie, George (ed.). "Polly Wolly Doodle (and Her Great Poodle)". The Beano. No.306. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. You’d have hoped that both Starmer and Sunak would have known better. But both seem to imagine that getting lairy in the playground is the only way to win the local elections. McNab, Tom (23 September 2014). "Boys' comics of the 1940s – The Wonderful World of William Wilson – Saga". www.saga.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. You’re right that a new party would be just as much work, maybe more – the advantage as I see it is that the work could start right away – just as soon as Jeremy agrees to lead it. Moore, Charles (4 December 2009). "Why Lord Snooty is the ideal role model for David Cameron". The Daily Telegraph.

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Andy Murray guest-edits the Beano". The Guardian. 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021 . Retrieved 13 September 2021. Sadly, at no point in Dave Snooty and his Pals did the title character inspire his comrades to emulate his gentlemanly virtues, or show that he had become their leader because they had deferred to his innate moral worth. This would no doubt have improved the strip enormously.

Within minutes. Sunak had repeated the jibe. Sir Softy, Sir Softy. The Tory benches loved it. So much so that they immediately started tweeting it as if it contained the wisdom of ages. Starmer wasn’t entirely blameless in all this. He too had decided that PMQs is best treated as a noisy school playground by getting personal as well. Brown, Craig (4 September 1995). "Hattersley's school daze". Evening Standard. p.11. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Ant-Man and the Wasp' Stars Didn't Read Marvel Comics as Kids". Comicboo Andy Murray guest-edits The Beano comic". BBC News. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021 . Retrieved 13 September 2021.