"Sadly, our graffiti removal teams are staffed by professional cleaners,

[Joe Chi Minh]

not professional art critics"

Quote from Transport For London spokesman, after a picture by celebrated gaffiti artist Banksy was removed.


I love that droll irony. Beginning, as it did, with that "Sadly", it sounded, at first, like a lament of one of our dear trolls - except that irony was never one of their more noticeable qualitites. I was half expecting to see a shoulder-shrugging emoticon below it.