1984: Why is the place being monitored?
Hargreaves has missed the point of constant surveillance.
1984: Can’t remember
In a vitally important scene in Bizet’s opera Carmen the world-famous Placido Domingo can’t remember his lines. The bearded speaker is worried about his wasted £40 per head. £40? Yes, but it was 35 years ago.
1984: Some things never change
Larry isn’t that sympathetic to the lonely protester. Today there would be a crowd of them and plenty of television reporters.
Excellent. 
1984: Changing fashions in the kitchen
Punch is here observing its traditional role in satirising a current fashion – this time in the kitchen.
1984: Football sponsorship
It goes back a long way – at least 25 years as this cartoon shows.
1984: A bit of whimsy
Not only animals are sometimes given human attributes. Here inanimate objects are given the same treatment.
1987: Like master, like dog.
Here we have a variant on the joke about dog owners coming to look like their pets. The ’fag in the mouth’ look is assigned – improbably- to the bone in the dog’s snout.
1985: A weak pun
The artist seems rather short of ideas here. Indeed, who want to pay £5.00 for a horse to be ‘shoed’ in this way?
1985: The ageing process
I think that we all undergo the Myron process – sooner or later.
1986: A joke intended for the Metropolitan Elite
There would not have been many readers of Punch in Burnley in 1986. Quite possibly none at all.
1983: Superkid
This juvenile does not conform to the image shown in the comic books at the time. Why would he want to borrow the car If he really possessed superhuman abilities?
1983: Being different
To my mind this cartoon belongs more to the sixties but the desire to be different was not confined to that decade. The point of the joke is to portray nudism as ordinary, mainstream really.
1983: A smart career decision
1983? Such decisions seem quite common place these days.
1983: Etiquette among the Eskimos
Multiple absurdities are on display here. The main theme is to show ‘Western’ values being enacted in a milieu which is completely un-western. Of course, fish will be on the menu – again!
1983: Pavement Art
Conventions are being broken here. Mavis isn’t embarrassed and the street artist accepts her as a bona fide model. Its only the husband who conforms to type.
Another cracker 
1986: A macabre cartoon
Here is an example of what is known as ‘gallows humour’. It rarely appears in the pages of Punch.
1985: Cruelty
The woman is shown as deliberately sadistic. This cartoon represents a part of trend that belongs to a late phase in the lifetime of Punch.
Horrible. :shock: