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Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Licence to Offend exhibition cancelled in case it causes offence
An exhibition of work by political cartoonists including The Times's Morten Morland has been cancelled because of fears it could cause offence. Hours before a private viewing on Wednesday, organisers of Licence to Offend told guests not to go after a last-minute decision by the venue, the TownSq co-working space in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London. The decision to pull the exhibition was criticised as 'idiotic' by Morland, who started working for The Times in 2002. His work had been hung in the venue on Saturday alongside previously published cartoons from Mac and Pugh of the Mail titles, Patrick Blower of The Daily Telegraph and Martin Rowson of The Guardian. The exhibition, featuring satirical images of Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer and the
Spectator
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Cartoon exhibition cancelled after art deemed too political
Is the era of political satire over? The Kingston Riverside TownSq venue seems to think so. It transpires that the Surrey events space has cancelled an exhibition of political cartoonists' work called Licence to Offend in case, er, anyone was offended. You couldn't make it up… The showing featured work from celebrated newspaper cartoonists including the Spectator's JG Fox, Morten Morland, also formerly of the Spectator, the Mail's Mac and Pugh, and the Guardian's Martin Rowson. The event, organised by photographer Paul Mowatt and artist Zoe Dorelli, was to display dozens of cartoons ranging across the political spectrum to the public after its private viewing on Wednesday evening in Kingston. Yet their hopes were dashed after the venue contacted the duo and ordered them to 'take down the show immediately after our private view,' according to Dorelli.
