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In today’s featured cartoon, political cartoonist Andy Davey illustrates on the European Commission attempting to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in order to block the transit of Covid-19 vaccines to the UK, in the face of a shortfall. The bloc later revoked its decision.
Peter Brookes refers to how the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Germany and France have faltered, as Europe faces a supply shortfall.
According to Maarten Wolterink, it’s the UK who is winning the Covid-19 ‘vaccine game’, not the European Union. While Europe is reeling under vaccine shortage, nearly 7.5 million have received their first jab in Britain so far.
Adam Zyglis alludes to the rise of domestic terrorism in the US and the half-hearted attempts of the Republican Party to keep it under check.
Kevin Siers also takes a dig at the Republicans in a cartoon titled ‘The Grand QAnon Party‘. QAnon is an umbrella term for a set of conspiracy theories that allege the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who are plotting against Donald Trump. Siers refers to the Republican Party’s criticism of New York governor Andrew Cuomo recently, in which it has called him “gutless” for under counting of Covid-19 deaths at nursing homes.