Respect: The inspiration behind the cartoon was the argument in supporting why statues should be kept up in public. Statues are part of our history, and from learning our past, we can build a better future for the next generations.
Belief: In the cartoon, the girl in the scene explains to her friend she did what she did, believing it was the right thing for her to do. Our beliefs shape the actions we all make individually.
Sex: The topic around the Sex cartoon is how people switching their gender is effecting the rights of women. An example of this is during the Tokyo Olympics when a man who has changed to be a woman participated in the woman’s weightlifting competition.
Noble: The cartoon is about how we need noble people in life, that are knowledgeable, wanting to identify what’s actually happening, such as the policewoman asking a boy running up to her if he can prove the woman chasing him is not his mother?
Does Not: The scene is set in Telford which had the highest report of sex crimes in the UK in 2015 and has had an ongoing issue with grooming gangs.
Provide: The topic of this scene is the parents providing the care and support children need.
Control: This is around the Dangerous Dogs Act, inspired by a true story that happened in Rowley Regus, where a woman was killed by two fighting dogs that lived two houses down the road where she lived. The dogs dug under the fences and entered the woman’s garden where they attacked and killed her.
Good Faith: The depicted scene is around the decision on abortion. It’s up to the pregnant woman to decided based on honest opinion and the doctor acting in good faith, if she wants the abortion or not.
Alarm: In a democratic world where freedom of speech is allowed, it’s important that when speaking in public, it’s important that there are other people that are going to disagree or feel threatened with what’s being said and vice versa.
Grit: The Grit cartoon is about how and why we need to clean up the earth’s atmosphere of all the man-made pollution pumped into the city air. Cleaning up the atmosphere has its benefits for us humans.
Religious: This scene presents the knife crime that’s happening in the UK, giving a reason for it to be illegal to carry a knife in public, unless it’s for ceremonial or religious reasons, such as in Sikhism, which the Gurdwara in the background represents.
His: Our written laws are traditionally written as if they were written for men only. What this piece represents is that our laws are for women too.
Matter: The topic of this scene is around how media reports events from public to private. Journalists report these events believing that the public have the right to know, whether the topic is controversial or not.
Fair: The Fair piece is about how people can use social media to influence the outcome of a court trial, influencing the juries, who normally make a judgement based only on evidence presented in court with no prior knowledge.
Secure: The hackers in this scene are hacking through the firewalls used to protect people’s data and information. If the information has been hacked, then there must be improvements to make computers more secure and safe for people to use and protect their data from hackers like these ones.
Fine: : As we’re in a pandemic, we have to socially distance by 2m and wear a face mask, otherwise you’ll receive a fine for not following the rules, as demonstrated in this cartoon.
Revoke: The Revoke cartoon is regarding whether the secretary of state can revoke the declaration for the Coronavirus Act in relation to SCHEDULE 22 relating to events and gatherings.
Encourage: The scene here depicts a stranger encouraging people to commit an offence or crime at a random place in any town. The person whose speaking won’t even participate in the event, as the people he encouraged will commit the crime for him.
Conduct: The objects around the people at the table reference the people in the scene being hypocritical on the matters they’re protesting of, demonstrating that these people are only telling other people to do what they say and not doing what they’re meant to do to stick to these ideologies themselves.
Freedom: The topic behind this piece is the reactions of on both sides of the argument on whether we should take down our statues or not. Some of us are in support of it, and some are against it for different reasons, with the policeman in the middle representing the balance of the law.