Guido has been keeping tabs on the increasingly shambolic Observer relaunch – now owned by the slow-news lefties at Tortoise Media. This weekend, the paper printed a cartoon featuring Jeremy Corbyn alongside Zarah Sultana, drawn onto a Sun-Maid raisin box. Sultana wasn’t amused:
Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname.
Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP. https://t.co/Zvyt4NlS7M pic.twitter.com/Krhvk8sLCy
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 20, 2025
Having proudly published the cartoon in print, The Observer has now sheepishly deleted it from social media. Another humiliation for the paper…
UPDATE: The Observer has since issued a statement on its website: “We are genuinely sorry for causing offence and we are taking the cartoon down.”
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”