It is increasingly looking like the British government is using aid as a way to further British business interests rather than to fight global poverty. This worrying trend prompted our director, Deborah Doane, to write in the Guardian clarifying that since the Pergau Dam legal case that the World Development Movement won in 1994, tied aid has been illegal. This is cartoonist Ben Jennings' take on the story.
Pontus Westerberg, web officer
Last year's winner of the 'cartoon of the year' award was 21 year old University of Westminister undergraduate Ben Jennings. Beating household names like Steve Bell and Martin Ronson, he received the prestigeous prize for his '£1,000,000 treasure hunt' cartoon depicting the war in Libya.
Ben Jennings has been drawing cartoons for as long as he can remember; in his Maths class at school he'd be drawing scathing caricatures of his teacher instead of Venn diagrams and at 15 he began selling his drawing. He has now produced cartoons for The Guardian, The i newspaper, The Morning Star, The Huffington Post and The Stool Pigeon music newspaper, among others, as well as taking part in various exhibitions and producing two animated music videos for MOBO-award winning rapper Akala, used on the rapper's website.
I'm very pleased to announce that during 2012 Ben will be drawing regular cartoons for WDM!
Here is the first one, relating to Barclays winning the Public Eye 'shame' Award for its role in food speculation. ...
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