WOTM May 2022

 Well, time to cast clouts, apparently.  Wren has led the pack most of the month, b ut SteveB has given him a good run for his money.  Cartoonist of the month is below the sub links and the ticker list for May is at the bottom of the post



Adrian Bamforth

Nearly all of John Peel's record collection turns out to be crap

apepper

Boris whistled in admiration at "I watched porn by accident" claim

Climate scientists all resign after listening to a bloke in the pub

Johnson to change deadly sins system to five

Lee Anderson's guide to solving the cost of living crisis

Tories under pressure to "keep scandals fresh"

Transport for London turn down heating on buses to reduce crowding

Chipchase

BBC will outsource future drama projects to Acton am-dram group

Bill and Ben reboot in jeopardy as one half of iconic duo goes missing

Exclusive: Micro submarine expedition team embarks on search for Boris Johnson's integrity

Extraordinary scenes in Sheffield as Trump refuses to accept defeat in World Snooker Final

Two pound coin dropped down the side of your driver's seat continues to goad you

Chrisf

#ColUmbro and #CherLochHomes - the next celebrity whodunnit trials revealed

8 annoying comments to make on a Facebook community post

Boris: My Freedom Bus Pass will solve housing crisis too

New Lloyd Webber musical to examine work in the gig economy

Rebekah Vardy lands job producing tabloid epigrams

Sue Gray report to focus on occasions where there no parties at Number 10

Tory MPs to all do ‘Tim Nice but Dim’ impression

dogular

Kim Jong-un in great victory over zooplankton

Dominic_mcg

“No mow May” activist “just a lazy git”, says wife.

Eppursimuove

Boy priest travelling to India thought to be in danger from monkeypox

FlashArry

PM's integrity level "now a negative number"

Gerontius

Monkeypox a Brexit dividend’ insists Rees-Mogg

Pinewood Studios in talks with Neil Parish over new 'Carry On…' script

Vandals criticised over time it took to deface Thatcher memorial

Granger

Pavlov Undogged

Ian Searle

Owner of Mr Benn's fancy dress shop forced to rent out empty premises by government

James_doc

Piers Morgan going door to door trying to offend people

Lockjaw

Evil White Witch to annex England

Horse riders to carry poo-bags when on public roads

"I was groomed by Prince Charles", claims Yucca plant

Weird sisters caught producing unlicensed HRT potion

Midfield Diamond

Brave footballer comes out as intelligent (newsbiscuit.com)

Modelmaker

Cost of living crisis - PM and Chancellor are both on the same page

Crash test dummies to become non-gender specific

Exclusive - Sue Gray forced to complete her report in Coventry monastery cloister

Fukushima fish deal a boost for HAZMAT kitchenwear industry

Government to rely on party donors to help with Jubilee bunting shortage

Jack Monroe to get BBC cooking series

PM dumbs down ministerial code to make it more comprehensible to himself

Radio Hams of Spike Island in Widnes broadcast "Russian warship to go F@ck

Sir Graham Brady seeks internet advice about his phone

Newsbiscuit Editorial Team

Sue Gray to produce report into Sue Gray report

Sarah Tipper

Turmeric under unreasonable pressure to fix all ailments

Woman Says She May Have Opened Crisps By Mistake In Public

SimonJMr

Dominic Raab 100% claymation claim Aardman

Russian advance hindered by faulty Sat Nav

Sir Lupus

Britain to cripple Russia using management consultancy services

SteveB

£1,000 Gucci umbrella doesn't even assassinate Bulgarian dissidents

Boris Johnson ambushed by cake, wine, fizz, spirits, party-goers, strippers and a donkey. Six times.

Boris Johnson's plan to solve cost of living crisis is bold new initiative called 'Herd Immunity'

Computer hacker 'spoofs' Conservative Party 1922 Committee inbox

'Fatberg in central London clogging up the system found to be Boris Johnson

Government passes emergency law to prevent poor people inhaling calories off the top of cake

Long, cold, silent, breezy fart on toilet this morning still a mystery

Primary source of fog still Bonnie Tyler pop video from the 1980s' confirms Met Office

Steve Blair

Liz Truss causes diplomatic incident by trying to scrap northern Iceland Protocol

New Doctor Who 'too thin, or something' complain racists

Prince Charles slays Parliament with “Zhuzhed-up” edit of Queen’s speech

stewartbarclay

Boris ‘playing 4-D Eurovision chess’

Coleen Rooney cast as new 'Sherlock'

Dogs at Polling Stations mortified by Tory owners

LinkedIn just wants to be LovedIn

Moominpappa tools up as Finland joins NATO

Save Big Dog! Declare War!

Shelves shelved as man's DIY project no match for snooker

Starmer had a curry, a pint and a car park straightener

Sydalg

Great works of literature nipped in the bud

Throngsman

Eating now a resigning thing

Government want to send Doctor Who back to Gallifrey

Her Royal Highness, Sue Gray, admits to meeting with Boris Johnson on a number of occasions

House of Lords to relocate to Wetherspoons

Lord Lebedev identified as third man in flowerpot ring

Polling staff request dogs tied to railings outside of polling stations are removed

Soldiers agree to 20% pay cut to work from home

Tractor porn is NOT going to be legalised, says government

Zelensky delighted about UK local election results

Titus

Audience Flocks To Concert By Singing Quartet Who Didn't Actually Bother To Turn Up Themselves

Kurt Zouma's cat 'taking it one game at a time'

urbanhermit

Singing can raise spirits says MP

Walter Eagle

Johnson Creates Two New Regulators -OffHead and OffT*ts - In Whitehall Shake-up

Wrenfoe

Amber Heard: Acting Tips for beginners and litigators

Boris fined in guineas but his bribes still in metric

Boris Johnson to renounce ‘human form’

Child gives bad book review to adult who refuses to do all the voices

Cost of living crisis solved with one quick trip to Las Vegas

George RR Martin to finish Sue Gray report

Next Pirelli Calendar to be based on Mayan Calendar

One Tory MP can feed a family of five for a year

Russia forced to adopt the Pink Pound

Starmer & Johnson forced to resign over ‘sh$t parties’

'Sue Gray concludes: It's not a party without a conga line

TV detective to tackle teen graffiti threat

Ukraine crisis is ‘Peace Avoidance’ not 'Peace Evasion'

World’s largest gunrunner oddly concerned that we might not buy their guns


Cartoons

The Cartoons editor Lockjaw, who again has posted a huge amount of cartoons this last month, has recused himself from being chosen as cartoonist of the month (COTM), but has agreed to cast the vote for the winning cartoon.

The nominations are:

Modelmaker

A much maligned man speaks out in his defence

Bookmaker donates his Lester Piggott voodoo doll to Jockey Club

Charles prepares for part in Eastenders jubilee street party

Collecting the rosettes

Cost of living crisis becomes reflected in Facebook posts

Dentist shortage: a gap that needs filling

Eurovision results preview

Find the cheese in Johnson's fridge, when the fat bastard works from home competition

Flaw found in advice to live off essentials

Jamming as much as Bob Marley

Nation cuts back on colour as cost of living crisis bites

North Korea just like the west

Outside the polling station

Public reaction to result of Operation Hillman investigation

Rees Mogg inadvertently damns Johnson with faint praise

René Magritte's view of Partygate

Resignation over Kabul withdrawal?

Russia finds itself with big shoes to fill

Spain braces for extraordinary heatwave amid cost of living crisis

Starmer considers position

Starmer has it all under control

Supermarkets to introduce new stickers

Tory MP gives cooking lesson

Tory venue to discuss Boris Johnson's future as leader

Venus and Jupiter conjunction

Young Conservatives tell party what to do with PM

SteveB

Bank of England changes interest rates

Critics not sure if Jackson Pollock artwork has been 'caked'

Dry humour

'Pro-life' US Supreme Court considers rights of fetus to bear arms

Sausage party

See the asset strip at the new Vegas

Vintage wine or vintage vine fridge?

Titus

Scandals yet to come

And the winner is...

Modelmaker with 'Supermarkets to introduce new stickers'

Tickers

ChrisF

Charles forced to say 'My mum says...' at start of every Queens' Speech sentence

Deskpilot3

Number 10 rejects calls to install a defib machine

Old folk congregating in Iceland to keep warm

Queen says yes to Charles and Camilla in Eastenders and no to Andrew doing Love Island

UK signs prestigious trade agreement with Alderney

William Hartnell unlikely to return for Dr Who special show

Dominic_mcg

As monkeypox cases increase, the government awards £1 billion banana contracts to Tory donors

Invasion of Ukraine blamed on "massive ticket fraud"

Pensioner climbs Mount Everest but can't remember why he went up there

Rail workers vote to strike. "How will we tell?" say commuters

Remains of scary prehistoric creature discovered on a plinth in Grantham

Royal Eastenders: Charles pays the Mitchell brothers to sort out Andrew

FlashArry

Queen in new "one will turn up if one can be arsed" row

Gerontius

Households to get £400 to pay for £800 price increases says Tory chancellor

Ian Searle

Brazilian Beauticians Unhappy about No Mow May

Jack the Quipper

France smirks as UK announces only 71 cases of sexually-transmittable Monkeypox

Jim Skinz

Jailed conman challenges Boris Becker to game of fixed doubles

Monkeypox vaccine to cost £500

Lockjaw

Priti Patel calls upon immigrants to 'stay out, to help out'

WAG trial will be settled in extra time and then penalties

Mick Turate

Boris Johnson claims he was ambushed by several bottles of wine as well a cake

Midfield Diamond

PM vows Rwanda plan will not be spoiled by humanitarians

Modelmaker

Age UK announces details of 2022 Glastonbury festival lineup

oshaughnessy

Depp claims Heard immunity

Government promises bank holiday cancellation if Queen snuffs it next Wednesday

Government solves cost of living crisis - take a shower in the rain

Nazanin forced to sign confession that Boris did a great job as foreign secretary

Paul L

Main takeaways for Government from Partygate are kebabs and Chinese

Robowurzel

Queen 'pulls out' - an object lesson for Boris

ron cawleyoni

Chelsea Pensioners to be taken over by LA Coffin Dodgers

SimonJMr

Music shop thief loots low hanging flutes

Sir Lupus

Queen snubs parliament for horse show "because quality of horseshit is better"

SteveB

'Burning 91,000 civil servants would save the Exchequer a fortune on energy bills' claims Rees-Mogg

First Crossrail train arrives bang on time - only 4 years late

Queen to miss state opening of parliament because Brian May is on badger watch

Wedding reception dance-off final chaos as judge declares 'May the best man win'

stewartbarclay

Queen to be projected on Commons 'like Gail Porter'

Truss to scrap NI as 'It's more Troubles than it's worth'

Sydalg

Guns go silent across Ukraine as Wagatha Christie verdict is announced

Home Office paints "Welcome to Rwanda" across Cliffs of Dover

Old couple charged with indecency say bus only place warm enough to have sex

Vandals rush to deface Thatcher statue while they can still afford eggs

Throngsman

Potters Bar bus fires: bus replacement service deemed 'unlikely'

Titus

Fruit Farmers Fearful Of Windfall Tax

Labour Suffering From 'Long Corbyn'

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