Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph
" More than once this year, as I have continued to report on some of this column’s favourite themes, I have thought back to the days, long ago, when my satirical “Way of the World” column in The Daily Telegraph was illustrated by a cartoonist just starting on the paper called Matthew Pritchett. Already, young Matt was showing signs of why he was later to become a national treasure. But one drawing in particular, in 1989, was based on an item in which I mocked the way, even then, the BBC was regularly entertaining us with scary documentaries about how global warming would bring about the end of the world.
I suggested to Matt a picture of the prophetess Cassandra standing amid the smoking ruins of Troy, holding up a placard reading: “Remember, folks, you heard it here first”. The point about Cassandra’s dire predictions, of course, was that no one ever believed them until they turned out to be true – a fate too often shared, alas, by this column."
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