Bad Taste no. 35: who reads the Daily Telegraph?

The scan: sc-n84-feb-22-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 35 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: who reads the Daily Telegraph?.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a colonel type wants the Irish, blacks, unions and perverts shot; a reader wonders who reads the Telegraph, then turns to the sectarian ravings of the British left — two sellers of "Workers' Friend" ("Why we don't support the ANL") wonder who is meant. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 35, Socialist Challenge no. 84, 22 February 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #35.

2. (A moustached colonel type thinks:) "Bloody Irish! Bloody blacks! Bloody unions! Bloody perverts! They should all be shot!!"

3. "Do people like this exist? Have they survived?" "And, if not, who DOES read the Daily Telegraph?"

4. (A reader behind a paper:) "Never mind that — try digesting the sectarian ravings of some of the British left —"

5. (Two sellers of "Workers' Friend", headlined "Why we don't support the A.N.L.":) "I wonder who they're talking about —" "I've no idea —"