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Issue 472

18 January 1980

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Margaret Thatcher

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1960s

Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan
Issue 8
April 1962

Lyndon B Johnson

Lyndon B Johnson
Issue 113
April 1966

Bernadette Devlin

Bernadette Devlin
Issue 202
September 1969

Francis Chichester

Francis Chichester
Issue 138
March 1967

1970s

Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home
Issue 272
May 1972

Princess Anne

Princess Anne
Issue 254
September 1971

Julius Libman

Julius Libman
Issue 241
March 1971

Ted Heath Harold Wilson Arthur Michael Ramsey

Ted Heath
Issue 269
April 1972

1980s

Bristol Police

Bristol Police
Issue 478
April 1980

Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill
Issue 545
November 1982

Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson
Issue 706
January 1989

The Queen Mother Princess Margaret

The Queen Mother
Issue 661
April 1987

1990s

Teddy Sheringham Alan Shearer

Teddy Sheringham
Issue 952
June 1998

John Major Norman Lamont

John Major
Issue 810
January 1993

The Queen Mother

The Queen Mother
Issue 820
May 1993

Mohamed Al Fayed Kevin Keegan

Mohamed Al Fayed
Issue 976
May 1999

2000s

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Issue 1182
April 2007

Tony Blair John Reid

Tony Blair
Issue 1177
February 2007

George W Bush

George W Bush
Issue 1073
February 2003

Tony Blair George W Bush Jose Maria Aznar

Tony Blair
Issue 1102
March 2004

2010s

David Cameron George Osborne William Hague

David Cameron
Issue 1279
January 2011

Prince Philip King Charles

Prince Philip
Issue 1290
June 2011

God St Pauls Cathedral

God
Issue 1301
November 2011

Boris Johnson Jennifer Arcurri Carrie Symonds

Boris Johnson
Issue 1506
October 2019

2020s

Nadine Dorries Jacob Rees-Mogg Priti Patel Michael Fabricant

Nadine Dorries
Issue 21572
April 2022

Russell Brand
Issue 31607
September 2023

Chris Whitty Boris Johnson

Chris Whitty
Issue 41562
December 2021

Christmas

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Issue 51588
December 2022

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