The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.
New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrq0r0y878o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrq0r0y878o
The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.
77 Comments
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 169 pts · 330d
That’s a good piece of art
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 79 pts · 330d
Just dropped this in another thread, best copy I've found of just the mural:
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 330d
Wow you can really see the details
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 330d
Not showing for me somehow
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 330d
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 5 pts · 330d
Man, what talent
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d
Thnx!
nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 330d
I had to open in external because of some cloudflare validation
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 330d
Yeah I was gonna say, that's a fucking awesome piece! What do they do in situations like this? Paint over it?
Update:
ameancow@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 330d
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 330d
Yeah I saw in the article that they covered it up and posted guards. Kind of ironic if they end up removing the section of wall and making a ton of money selling it.
"Look, Banksy thinks we're committing atrocities! We're gonna be rich!!"
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 330d
The whole point of Banksy is most of his public work cannot be resold.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 330d
To a degree, people will cut out chunks of wall to sell a banksy.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 330d
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 9 pts · 330d
Usually it's just fenced off and people can still see it. Makes me think some one was upset with it.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 330d
It is just delicious how their knee-jerk reaction of "lets hide it" reveals so much about their mindset and how much that mural hits the target as critique of the true role of their profession in present day Britain.
They reacted as the guilty do, not the innocent.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 330d
They always go for a cover up
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 328d
Update:
hector@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 330d
Yeah they plan on painting over it. They covered it up and put two policemen to guard it to make sure nobody looks at it.
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 330d
That's not dystopian or anything.
hector@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 330d
The UK is about just as fucked up as the United States is right now in a lot of ways, their leader is just don't say stupid shit constantly. They have basically made it illegal to protest, not just on the Gaza on a lot of stuff, environmental, global warming, and the judges just took away the defenses protesters were using, not allowing them to say why they were doing it. And they are hitting him with these huge sentences is not like it's months in jail we're talking years or more.
Just to give you an idea of where they are at there was another recent case where a woman that took some abortion pills that she got from the doctor as per their laws was charged under some like 19th century law with some huge felony charge. She got not guilty but not for lack of trying on the prosecutor's part.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 330d
And they're not even ruled by the conservative parties. This is the good outcome!
mcv@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 330d
I'm absolutely baffled at Labour. The Tories were a complete clown show, and it should have been trivial to put up some serious opposition against them, but they never did. Only when the Tories really burned out, did Labour win, and they're immediately giving us Tories-light. The same shit, just toned down 20%.
When does the UK start voting for better parties? Replace the Tories with LibDem and Labour with the Greens. If I lived in England, I'd be upset I couldn't vote for SNP. Every other party is better than these two.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 330d
And they got into power because everyone was going "oh shit, we don't want another Trump", then just run full steam ahead into issues that will piss off their base. Someone who hasn't been kept up to date could be excused for thinking the party restricted trans people and arresting peace protesters en masse was the more conservative party.
Saleh@feddit.org · 3 pts · 329d
Let me tell you about the tale of Neoliberalism and the center "left". Our story begins in the 1980s, but it really takes of in the early 2000s. At the time a bloke named Tony was ruling the UK as prime minister and he had a fine Atze ruling Germany, whose name was Gerhard...
Together they dismantled social security, raised taxes on their people, and lowered taxes on their rich friends. They sold much of their realm to their rich friends, at a staggering discount. They said this would be best for the people and the global markets would demand, but also reward as such...
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · -4 pts · 330d
Lmfao, cope harder. Despite everything it's not even close right now. Worry about your own impending Fourth Reich while the UK still has its citizens actually engaged in political activism. We'll be fine.
bigfondue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 330d
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 330d
Guess we finally found who we're not allowed to criticise.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 330d
Close:
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
Banksy’s art sells for millions so it would be unwise to paint over it
hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 330d
It's on the ministry of Justice building, which and this is true is worth a lot more than the painting, even if it was not a sharply critical piece against the ministry of Justice. They absolutely are going to paint over it.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
Well the good news is he will probably paint it again
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 330d
I wonder if it's a one-off statement or they have plans for a response. Being on a government building kind of prompts this result, which may be part of the intention.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 329d
Getting it painted over is also poetic in itself.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 329d
Truly.
You don’t like us silencing protesters let’s also silence you depicting that 😂
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 329d
Well they could cut out the painting and replace the brick work using the proceeds from selling it.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk · 64 pts · 330d
The West is dismantling every shibboleth, every sacred cow, in service to genocidal Zionism.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 330d
There's a lot of West in the West.
That said, you're exactly right for certain Western countries such as Britain, America and Germany.
netuno@lemmy.cif.su · 0 pts · 330d
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 330d
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Ranking_by_Religious_Group/_-/_2001.png
RubberDuck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 330d
netuno@lemmy.cif.su · 1 pts · 329d
This was removed for "trolling," but I wasn't trolling and stated objective fact.
These moderators are a joke that shouldn't be taken seriously.
Always check the modlogs to see what these clowns are trying to keep from us.
shane@feddit.nl · 55 pts · 330d
This seems nonsensical to me.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 330d
If it were in reference to a particular issue, would that make Banksy a "terrorist?" Maybe it's better to feign uncertainty at the BBC.
klu9@piefed.social · 54 pts · 330d
Nitpick: it's Parliament who proscribed Palestine Action, not the courts.
Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 99 pts · 330d
It is the courts upholding it though.
It took like two months now that Palestine Action are allowed to get an appeals hearing in November iirc.
Courts could have decided for the proscription to not be applicable until a proper hearing takes place. Instead it was upheld.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 19 pts · 330d
Yea the decision to ban it went through so fast it was hard to have a defence, but the appeals are all delayed now they have one.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 330d
Cross nitpick: Just because the courts are following Parliament's 'law' in no way negates their complicity in doing wrong.
See Nazi guards following Hitler's rules for reference.
FishFace@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 330d
Nazi guards murdered people. I'll condemn the courts for carrying out the law when it involves murdering people.
I don't believe anyone has been convicted yet in these cases (probably many have not even been charged) so the role of the courts so far was to agree to judicial review but to decline an interim block on the order. Parliament is clearly more to blame for this.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 30 pts · 330d
Yes, definitely wait til they start killing people. Condemnation will surely work wonders then
FishFace@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 330d
So, just to be clear, what are we condemning the courts - which haven't convicted anyone of anything in this - for?
Condemnation certainly doesn't achieve anything when anyone can see you're condemning people for stuff they haven't done. I know that the zeitgeist is vibes-based but we should really be doing better than that.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 27 pts · 330d
Yes, because prosecuting people for being political dissidents doing nothing other than holding a sign is always right and just.
FishFace@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 330d
Do you want to try again, using the words I wrote rather than the ones you pulled out of the air?
J92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
Also UK judges don't use gavels.
(Edited: was gravels)
Damage@feddit.it · 9 pts · 330d
They prefer city bikes
J92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d
I don't understand this but I can only assume its in reference to my autocorrect.
PonderingPotato@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 330d
A gravel bike is a type of bike for "gravel" conditions, so dirt roads and stuff
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d
Do the courts not get judicial review in the UK?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 330d
Judicial review would imply a higher authority.
For the most part, UK's highest legal authority is Parliament.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 330d
The Supreme Court, as well as being the final court of appeal, plays an important role in the development of United Kingdom law.
As an appeal court, The Supreme Court cannot consider a case unless a relevant order has been made in a lower court.
It is the final court of appeal for all United Kingdom civil cases, and criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It hears appeals on arguable points of law of general public importance.
It concentrates on cases of the greatest public and constitutional importance.
It maintains and develops the role of the highest court in the United Kingdom as a leader in the common law world.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 18 pts · 330d
How does one confirm a true Banksy from a fake when nobody knows who he actually is? How do you verify the Banksy who confirmed it's legit is legit?
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 330d
They are posted by their Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/banksy/
I don't know if all their works are on there though
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 329d
Kind of funny for someone like Banksy to still have to join somewhere like Instagram.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 329d
I get your point, but if you're doing political activism, you need to meet the people where they are
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 329d
Indeed.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 330d
People do know who he is.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 330d
Cut it out and send it to the Louvre Museum.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 330d
Or to Athens. You know both the birthplace of democracy and the origin of the stolen Elgin marbles.
They are owed an even larger apology due to the rape of democracy that's taken place.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 329d
What, because we allowed women, commoners and slaves the vote?
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 329d
Mainly because of the 'philosopher king' infringement tbh.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 11 pts · 330d
There's nothing I love more than hearing British people complain about being forced to do the one job that they have. Miserable sods.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 330d
I feel personally attacked. Or if not, I probably will soon.
hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 330d
I wonder if he did like Cut outlines that they could paste up there and then spray over it? Because time certainly would have been an issue at that location. Is incredible detail it seems like it would take forever if not for the outline already being done elsewhere.
halferect@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 330d
It's stencils and than final touches after, the painting probably only took a few minutes at most
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 330d
Exactly my thought when I saw it... Several stencils that act as layers. Maybe buttressed against the floor to keep it level.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 330d
he should have painted Keir Starmer's face on it
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 330d
According to a cursory search, Banksy's net worth is $50 million. Hmm.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
Yes but it's $50m worth of card stock and rattle cans.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -6 pts · 330d
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 330d
I hope that this is just a misunderstood pun?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -5 pts · 330d
spacesatan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 330d
It's pretty uninspiring artistically but at least he's putting his fame to good use with a message slightly more controversial than 'what if cops were gay' or some of his other stuff. Also a very solid up purely from a graffiti perspective, that's a big piece for a location with that much security.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 329d
I think it's more the social commentary.