The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.

top 79 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 162 points 1 year ago (35 children)

That’s a good piece of art

  • source
  • hideshow 35 child comments
  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Just dropped this in another thread, best copy I've found of just the mural:

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

    Yeah I was gonna say, that's a fucking awesome piece! What do they do in situations like this? Paint over it?

    Update:

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 27 child comments
  • [+] 94 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago

    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!!"

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's not dystopian or anything.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And they're not even ruled by the conservative parties. This is the good outcome!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    They followed their conquering of the Labour Party leadership thanks to a campaign of slanderous accusations of anti-semitism against the previous leader which was done with the help of Israeli-linked Jewish Groups in Britain, with a purge of Leftwingers from the Labour Party.

    So it was pretty much expectable that they would be authoritarian rightwingers since that's exactly how they behaved and they associated and got support from exactly that kind of people (having basically been gifted power by the Zionists back when people still thought accusations of anti-semitism coming from Jewish rightwingers were genuine rather than politically weaponized claims of racism).

    Mind you, they only won because Britain has First Past The Post and (which is not really a Democratic member of parliament allocation system) and the Reform party split the Tory vote making them lose the top place in lots of electoral circles.

    The system in Britain is rotten and the stink has risen enough to be unbearable.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Banksy’s art sells for millions so it would be unwise to paint over it

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While the mural does not reference a particular cause or incident, its appearance comes two days after almost 900 people were arrested at a London protest against the ban on Palestine Action.

    This seems nonsensical to me.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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?

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They are posted by their Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/banksy/

    I don't know if all their works are on there though

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kind of funny for someone like Banksy to still have to join somewhere like Instagram.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The West is dismantling every shibboleth, every sacred cow, in service to genocidal Zionism.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [+] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (-1 replies)
    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Nitpick: it's Parliament who proscribed Palestine Action, not the courts.

  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, definitely wait til they start killing people. Condemnation will surely work wonders then

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Also UK judges don't use gavels.

    (Edited: was gravels)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do the courts not get judicial review in the UK?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Judicial review would imply a higher authority.

    Judicial review is a process under which a government's executive, legislative, or administrative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.  In a judicial review, a court may invalidate laws, acts, or governmental actions that are incompatible with a higher authority.

    For the most part, UK's highest legal authority is Parliament.

    Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle of the UK constitution. It makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the UK, which can create or end any law. Generally, the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important part of the UK constitution.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I feel personally attacked. Or if not, I probably will soon.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    One of two security officers outside the building said they did not know how much longer they would be required to stand guard, adding, "At least it's not raining."

    There's nothing I love more than hearing British people complain about being forced to do the one job that they have. Miserable sods.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    he should have painted Keir Starmer's face on it

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Cut it out and send it to the Louvre Museum.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    According to a cursory search, Banksy's net worth is $50 million. Hmm.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • 12 comments in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk view that post
    [+] 23 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Always resources available for this, but there's been shit graffiti on the walls round my way for years.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Given the speed it was covered. I'd not be surprised if it was a court employee. (Janitor etc). Who has a ongoing job of covering graffiti. likely due to rules of political independence/lack of bias.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's Neil Buchanan I'm telling you.

  • source
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There are a lot of Brits on here who are constantly shitting on Americans for our slide into authoritarianism, but at least we're not yet at the stage where it is common policy for people to get arrested for peacefully protesting.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments