The year was just a few days old when the first major tragic story of 2015 happened. One that had particular resonance for cartoonists ...
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Free speech became a thorny issue, particularly at universities, where some student unions appeared to have a problem with it ...
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Here in the UK, we had a general election ...
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We saw the return of some old knitted friends ...
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The demonisation of certain elements of, er, society ...
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It seems we are now in an age where social-media sites introducing new buttons is news ...
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... and tech company bosses are the subjects of movies.
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Gadgets continued to rule our lives, of course ...
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There were the usual health scares (delicious processed meats this time ...)
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And -- seismic change alert -- a 5p tax on carrier bags was introduced in England ...
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More tragic news from Paris almost bookended 2015 ...
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But, here in the UK at least, we had some positive news as the year drew to a close ...
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Have a happy 2016, all!
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