This is the mural that Banksy painted in Clacton this week. The mural that local council officials painted over for being ‘offensive’. Clacton, a small seaside town near London, is host next week to a by-election, triggered by the defection of the local Conservative MP, Douglass Carswell, to UKIP, the populist anti-immigration, anti-EU party, whose growing success is causing panic in mainstream ranks. Carswell will almost certainly win the by-election in his new political colours, which would make him the […]

Categories: Culture & Books, Free Speech • Tags: banksy, censorship, exhibit b, free speech