Cartoons of the week

ALEX Salmond’s low-key celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, G7 leaders scramble as Spain’s travails continue, and Mike Russell’s attempts to attract students from impoverished backgrounds to univeristy are all under irreverent scrunity in this past week’s cartoons

Fri 1 June: Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt appears to get his wires crossed about the concept of impartiality over his stewardship of the failed BSkyB takeover bid as a cache of texts reveals his close ties to the Murdochs

Sat 2 June: The First Minister hosts a low-key, somewhat begrudging celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Sun 3 June: Alex Salmond struggles to find the appropriate attire as the Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee

Mon 4 June: Alex Salmond and his SNP colleagues seek shelter from the reign as the Queen continues to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee

Tue 5 June: Education Secretary Mike Russell bemoans the lack of students recruited from poorer backgrounds as news emerges that St Andrews University recruited only 13 such students

Wed 6 June: G7 leaders are in panic as Spain’s finance minister Cristobal Montoro says credit lines to his country have been closed off

Thu 7 June: Bankers harrumph at new EU directives that could signal the end of taxpayer-sponsored bailouts for ailing banking institutions

Illustrations by Brian Adcock and Iain Green