"Pharmakon for Iran"

With the previous two issues out of the way, I was preparing to cover Iran. By the time I got round to it, the "ceasefire" was announced and I figured that I could portray this as more of an aftermath, as Starmer tries to justify the government's limited involvement in aiding the U.S. in war crimes in the Middle East. Wouldn't be the first time.

The context for Starmer's line in the middle came from Simon Dudley, Reform's former housing spokesperson who justified the lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire in his attack against safety regulations. I will say that the term 'pharmakon' came up while reading 'Necropolitics' by Mbembe, and I wanted to fit that in somewhere. Also, I've decided to make Canada's Liberals skeletons as they're adjacent to Labour, and quite frankly, Spain's PSOE and Sánchez are doing well on their own, so they will be spared from undead depictions.

Originally posted on Instagram on 14th April 2026.

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