Do you 🤔 Meghan Markle’s Xmas card’s graphics achieves everything which Private Eye’s was trying to, but misses?

Most “New Britons” (or anyone not steeped in retrograde images of Enid Blyton 1950s culture) wouldn’t “get” the “grammar” of Private Eye’s “nostalgic” graphics.

It’s hardly witty.

It promotes & encodes an exclusionary All White vision of Britishness that was out-of-date in the 1950s.

It’s even anti-science, by blaming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‘s chief medical officer 👩🏾‍🔬 Chris Whitty instead of the govt for cancelling Xmas.

By contrast, with Meghan’s card, you don’t need to be steeped in or even be aware of nostalgic Enid Blyton aesthetics to understand the “grammar” of the style or the meaning of the images in her card.

Indeed, the truly witty point of its Enid Blytonness is that this modern 🇬🇧 – 🇺🇸 family that it depicts is the precise opposite of the racist imagery that was sadly smuggled into our bedtime stories by Enid Blyton’s 📚 growing up!

Meghan’s card works for anyone.

Private Eye’s cover is actually quite off-putting; the opposite of “inclusive” & clearly only intended for a narrow market segment.

PE needs a new graphic designer, imho.

Happy holidays, if you’re🍀 enough to have them.

If not 🙏🏾🕊

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