Bad Taste: Sir Kenneth Newman

The scan: sc-no240a.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 4, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: Sir Kenneth Newman. Note: unnumbered.

page 4 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: a skinhead welcoming the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman to London warns against snide comments about the RUC and police links with murder gangs — never let him hear the phrase "torture in Castlereagh Barrack" — and is clubbed: it really annoys him. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 240a, 8 April 1982, page 4. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac. "Right! We're here to welcome Sir Kenneth Newman to London"

2. "And I don't want to hear any snide comments about the Royal Ulster Constabulary! No jokes about police involvement with murder gangs! No —"

3. "Okay! I think this is him coming now —" "Just remember — never let him hear you use the phrase 'torture in Castlereagh Barrack'!"

4. "THWEK!" "It really annoys him!"