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British satirist Cold War Steve has published a series of images based on the British painter William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress (1733-35). Hogarth’s 18th-century original charts the catastrophic decline of an affluent young man, Tom Rakewell. Cold War Steve’s 2025 reimagining substitutes the foolish rake with the US president, Donald…

Among the missing blue plaques are ones commemorating William Hogarth, John Milton and Joseph Lister

Drift inside Leonora Carrington’s strange dreams while Ben Jennings parodies 14 years of political failure in a graphic Rake’s Progress – all in your weekly dispatch

A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative rule