Terry Prone: Graffiti artists don't care about anyone — and that's what makes them fascinating

The rest of the world has opinions, most of them hostile, about everything, but the letter-graffitists, seem opinion-free
Banksy spray painted his name on a London Tube with a rat holding sanitiser in July 2020.  

Banksy spray painted his name on a London Tube with a rat holding sanitiser in July 2020.  

The train journey to Ballinasloe was a joy. Nobody beside me. Nobody bellowing into a mobile phone. No cows in the toilets. Yes, cows. 

The train to Cork has its lavatory walls covered in murals of cows and although most of them, they being cows, have their heads down doing lawn mowing, it’s still disturbing to have to do one’s business in front of a herd of black and white cattle.

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