Category: Cartoons & Illustration
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Yellow Cake Revisted
Yellow Cake Revisited: Peter Maxwell Davies and the Orkney anti-uranium mining campaign.
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The Ba
The Ba is a game of street football with few rules, and an indeterminate number of players, which takes place in Kirkwall on Chrismas Day and New Years’s Day every year. The game is overseen by committee, and tactics are carefully considered by the teams in advance. For the 2020 festive season the Ba committee…
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For Whom does the Wind Blow?
Orkney is a windy place and can generate more power than it needs from its many wind turbines. Unfortunately the energy distribution network is not set up to take advantage of this. There is currently no easy way to export surplus electricity, and the price tariffs energy suppliers impose on consumers penalise people living in…
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Last Call for Life on Earth
Last Call for Life on Earth. Cartoon created for The Orkney News and iScot magazine. Consider your carbon footprint.
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Cataclysmic climate change?
Cataclysmic climate change? Just roll with it! When Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governer of California in 2003, he was criticised for claiming to care about the environment whilst driving around in a Hummer (of which he owned six). This incredibly masculine status symbol gets around 10 miles to the gallon, and is the exact opposite of…
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A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Erm – watch online
A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Erm The story of the Orcadian Woman’s Suffrage Society A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Erm, the animated story of the Orcadian Woman’s Suffrage Society, as told by The Orkney News is now available to watch online on YouTube: Campaigning for women to have the right to vote took…
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