FT Weekend Magazine’s top 10 Lucas Varela illustrations

“The cold comforts of a new fridge freezer”, October 16/17 2010: “This is the kitchen dream. We may not have an island kitchen or a granite worktop, but at least we’ve got the gunmetal-silver double-door food centre with a drinks dispenser and ice-maker”

“Getting from A to B can be real hell”, May 7/8 2011: “We no longer need to memorise the route to anywhere. Where once we dug out an A-Z and absorbed the route as we plotted our way across town, now we simply punch co-ordinates into the TomTom or smartphone... And technology is going to keep making life ‘easier’ in this way”

“How the grands séducteurs are fallen”, May 28/29 2011: “Men of Britain rejoice; throw off your shackles and insecurities and give thanks for Dominique Strauss-Kahn... For DSK has revealed the truth - and like the ‘Wizard of Oz’, it turns out that behind the screen there was nothing all that impressive going on”

“Now son, just one more test to go...” November 19/20 2011: “The fortunate will be interviewed by a senior tutor. And remember, however friendly he seems, do not call him ‘mate’. Like the vitamin drink Berocca, you must be ‘you, but on a really good day”

“Facebook friends: the art of deletion”, February 11/12 2012: “It isn’t actually something that happens in the adult world. We don’t wander into a colleague’s office and say ‘You’re not my friend any more’. We just let things slide. Or we did till Facebook arrived”

“My date night with the PM”, May 5/6 2012: “I’m thinking of knocking this prime-ministerial date night lark on the head. Last week it was my wife’s turn to run the country, and she hired a rather athletic-looking bodyguard who barred my access to the prime-ministerial bedchamber”

“How I became a royalist”, May 19/20 2012: “One minute you are downing merlot at a dinner party and arguing boorishly for the abolition of the monarchy; the next you are standing in the rain waving a plastic union flag and shouting ‘gawd bless your royal highness’”

“Boris: just about everywhere near you...”, July 14/15 2012: “We’ll have holographic avatars of Boris at every GP surgery. ‘Hi folks, this is your leader. Stay away from the NHS - it’s shockingly underfunded. Don’t get caught out. Visit our new website, getaheadofyourgallstones.com, and plan your operation abroad’”

“The iPad 1? Dreadful old thing...” August 4/5 2012: “With conformity comes self-delusion... It’s easy to spot the guy with an iPhone 4s at a party - he’s the one still insisting that Siri is useful”

“The (Disney) empire strikes back”, November 10/11 2012: “The Disney empire may have found your Uncle Luke’s Jedi sperm bank, and will use it to breed Sith Lords. Many have fallen before them. ESPN, Marvel, Pixar - all have been swallowed up by the Disney empire”