Observer Deletes Zarah Sultana Cartoon After Lefty Backlash – Guido Fawkes

Observer Deletes Zarah Sultana Cartoon After Lefty Backlash

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Guido has been keeping tabs on the increasingly shambolic Observer relaunch – now owned by the slow-news lefties at Tortoise Media. This weekend, the paper printed a cartoon featuring Jeremy Corbyn alongside Zarah Sultana, drawn onto a Sun-Maid raisin box. Sultana wasn’t amused:

Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname.

Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP. https://t.co/Zvyt4NlS7M pic.twitter.com/Krhvk8sLCy

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 20, 2025

Having proudly published the cartoon in print, The Observer has now sheepishly deleted it from social media. Another humiliation for the paper…