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.”
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”