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 39 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the Bennett Report.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 39, Socialist Challenge no. 88, 22 March 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #39.
2. Caption: "The journalists are sitting in the bar ...." "Have you got a copy yet, Alastair?" "No, not yet — have you managed to see it, Jonathan?"
3. (A man with the "Bennett Report":) "They're talking about the long awaited report on how the R.U.C. treats suspects."
4. "Will it be a searing indictment of the whole system of 'justice' in the Six Counties?" "Will it be yet another whitewash job?"
5. Caption: "Will it make any difference to those people who find themselves in the hands of our beloved police?" (A policeman punches a prisoner:) "Sign the confession!" (A grinning officer:) "I doubt it!"
