Streets Ahead is the column from London Walks' Pen and Daily Constitutional Special Correspondent 
David Tucker ...
In this instalment, and as our Cartoon & Comic Book Tour of London series draws to a close, David finds a chime of Wodehouse in the work of a beloved contemporary cartoon satirists...
Nihil novi sub sole.
Favourite phrase of mine. Comes from the bible, Ecclesiastes 1:9 to be precise.
Means - of course - there's nothing new under the sun.
And it's spot on. Of course.
Take our age's Gillray and Rowlandson and Hogarth rolled up into one. The brilliant cartoonist - and truth teller par excellence - Steve Bell. He's been joying us - let alone comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable - for several decades now. And long may he continue. Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown - he's nailed them all. Mercilessly - and deservingly - guyed them.
The bead he's drawn on the current occupant of Number 10 may be the best in his ongoing freakshow.
It's - as just about everybody in this country knows (and delights in) - Cameron condomed up.
Here's an example.
But nihil novi sub sole because the incomparable P.G. Wodehouse - the finest prose stylist of the 20th century - got there over 60 years ago.
Drum roll....
"Stilton Cheesewright is a man with a pink face and a head that looks as if it has been blown up with a bicycle pump."
And, yes, London Walks does a What Ho, Jeeves - The London of P.G. Wodehouse walk. Diaries ready? The next one will take place on Sunday, July 12 at 2.30 pm. Goes from Marble Arch Tube, exit 2 (the Park Lane exit). It's guided by one of the brightest lights in the London Walks constellation - actor and swordsman, Richard IV.
Steve Bell is the cartoonist for The Guardian - view his work here: theguardian.com/profile/stevebell
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