Ma Xingrui, a member of China’s Politburo and the former Communist Party boss of Xinjiang, is being investigated by the anti-corruption watchdog, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. He is the third member of the ruling party’s elite body to come under investigation in the current term that began in 2022 – a situation unseen in decades. He Weidong, former vice-chairman of the powerful Cent...
Ma Xingrui, a member of China’s Politburo and the former Communist Party boss of Xinjiang, is being investigated by the anti-corruption watchdog, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. He is the third member of the ruling party’s elite body to come under investigation in the current term that began in 2022 – a situation unseen in decades. He Weidong, former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), is also being investigated and was expelled from the party and...
Absurdist artist and cartoonist who was a staple of the greeting cards rack and of publications such as the New Yorker The genius of the cartoonist Glen Baxter was the happy result of a childhood in postwar Leeds – periods of dreariness interspersed with trips to the local cinema to watch black-and-white cowboy B-movies, and afternoons spent reading Boy’s Own annuals and the adventures of Dan Dare...
Absurdist artist and cartoonist who was a staple of the greeting cards rack and of publications such as the New Yorker The genius of the cartoonist Glen Baxter was the happy result of a childhood in postwar Leeds – periods of dreariness interspersed with trips to the local cinema to watch black-and-white cowboy B-movies, and afternoons spent reading Boy’s Own annuals and the adventures of Dan Dare in Eagle comics – combined with an artistic education influenced by Magritte and André Breton. Glen, who has died aged 82, was celebrated in Britain and the US for his cartoons, which appeared in publications including the New Yorker and the Observer, as well as being a staple of the humorous greetings card rack, and he was hailed in Europe as a master surrealist. He embraced the influences of his youth by pastiching the macho cowboys and heroic spacemen from the pages of his comics, but his characters, whether wearing tweed, a 10-gallon hat, or perhaps even a wimple, would find themselves in bizarre, pop art-inspired settings, accompanied by the deadpan, witty captions that became his trademark. Continue reading...