Another Banksy appeared this week, this time on the flank of the Grade I-listed Royal Courts of Justice in London. Naturally, the world’s news agencies leapt to attention. Not because of the image – a judge walloping a protester is the sort of wit you’d find on a novelty birthday card – but because the press can’t resist its favourite pantomime revolutionary. Within hours, it was boarded up and placed under guard. It was later scrubbed off the wall – a rare moment of good sense from the authorities. If only the same fate could befall the rest of Banksy’s wretched oeuvre.

If only the same fate could befall the rest of Banksy’s wretched oeuvre

The other day, walking around Bristol harbour, I was stopped by an elderly mittel-European couple – the husband carrying a moustache that seemed to

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