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Reading this article about the damage graffiti causes, I'm reminded of how the March edition of Big Issue was a "takeover" by 10 Foot, a posh kid who comes from the Isle of Wight and gets his kids cosplaying as an urban outsider and sticking-it-to-the-man by graffitiing (amongst other things) my council estate, our local halal butcher and a nearby charity shop.

I suspect it won't stop the problem, but we can help counter the scourge of graffiti by stopping glamorising it as "outsider art", and calling its practioners what they are: selfish bellends who trash ordinary working people's stuff for their own amusement.

HTB, 10 Foot and the rest are just the Bullingdon Club with better PR.

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