Matt Pritchett, the Telegraph’s front-page cartoonist, imposed his own rule.‘You have to stay a good two metres away from the subject of people actually getting ill,’ he says with a grin. ‘But any story is sensitive and complicated.
Before this it was the Irish backstop. The key is just to get as close to shocking as you can without ever upsetting anyone.’Over the past 32 years, Matt has managed to give us laughs from the unlikeliest source material: terrorist attacks, natural disasters, celebrity deaths… If there’s a story, he can generally find a joke in it.
But a pandemic? That was a new one.‘I suppose we had SARS, but I don’t remember that being [such] a big deal, so there was nothing to compare Covid-19 to.
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