Mrs Pantsdown elected to stand by her husband. The affair storyline was vindicated on February 6th when it was revealed that Lib Dem leader Paddy “Pantsdown” Ashdown was having an affair with his secretary. It employed some good freelance features: Garland, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, ‘Schott’s Miscellany’… But all of them ended up moving on to other papers eventually. The Independent staggered on for another 25 years before embracing its digital afterlife in 2016. The Independent, having officially deemed Alex “passé”, replaced it with a new, supposedly more “zeitgeisty” strip they’d commissioned: “Glibb” about a Paxman-esque TV presenter named Jonathan Glibb. To his credit he ran them, though it took Alex a few years to win over the hard-core Telegraph readership. There were rumours of cartoons having to be faxed to him in his Range Rover on a grouse moor for his approval. The Telegraph’s editor Max Hastings claimed he received sackfuls of mail over the following weeks complaining about the graphic nature of the opening story. A senior staff member at the Telegraph became convinced that the jokes were all about him.
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