Ronald Searle, the cartoonist who has died aged 91, may be most famous for his creation of St Trinian’s, but I will always remember him for his creation of Nigel Molesworth, the constantly mis-spelling, ungrammatical 1950s schoolboy and self-proclaimed “goriller of 3B”.

If you have never read a Molesworth book I can’t recommend them enough – and you can get a taster from the online version of the books here.

In memory of Ronald Searle, and in celebration of how his art is truly timeless, here is a Molesworth cartoon which applies as much to today’s Euro crisis as it did to Nigel Molesworth’s frustrations with his visiting French exchange student, Armand.

The caption, in the original (mis-)spelling: “It seem that Fr. and Eng. are divided by more than the Chanel”

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