I’m sure some of your readers might find the apache helicopter street signs mildly offensive.

I think you’re wrong on the lack of “local iconography”. There is a very global iconography at work in the negative space of his work.

Two of his best examples of this on the West Bank wall are the little girl standing on a pile of rubble with a blue paradise behind her, and the middle class living room window world view. They’re both a brilliant attempt to reclaim that ghastly, unnecessary, illegal sign of occup…(Sorry, I’ll stop myself there Bone.)

Anyway, have a butchers: http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

I was impressed by Banksy. Being, in general, a crank, I tend to cringe inside and gird myself for the worst when I hear “guerilla artist”, especially when intense politics are involved. The art tends to be the worst kind of meaningless and self-congratulatory schlock. So I was genuinely surprised that I liked his stuff. Even if he does go by one name.

Banksy is a genuine artist. I have his coffee table book on my, eh, coffee table.

In it there is a revealing exchange he has with a local Palestinian man who asks him to stop his work as they “don't want the wall to become beautiful”.