LONDON, Dec. 11. -- Punch this week pays its respects to America in a full-page cartoon entitled "The Part Greater Than the Whole." The artist shows Uncle Sam at a telephone. In comes Japan with a ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Arbuthnot's satirical figure, created in 1712 as an anthropomorphised bull, and its role as a representation of an English or British everyman. Show more ...