Bell's parodies include Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" (in an editorial cartoon about the UK Independence Party); William Hogarth's "The Gate of Calais" about the ban on UK meat exports following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and bovine BSE; and – before the 2005 general election when it briefly seemed as if the Liberal Democrats might seriously threaten Labour – J. M. W. Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire", in which a chirpy Charles Kennedy as tug-boat towed a grotesque and dilapidated Tony Blair to be broken up. Following the death of Margaret Thatcher, for his cartoon the next day, 9 April 2013, Bell adapted an illustration by Gustave Doré of Farinata in Dante's "Inferno", giving Thatcher the speech bubble "Why is this pit still open??" with reference to the closure of coal mines after the miners' strike of 1984–85.