Thumbs up to David Shrigley's fabulously feel-bad fourth plinth

Trafalgar Square, London
Seven metres of jabbing black bronze, Shrigley’s gleefully ugly sculpture gives a sarcastic thumbs-up to Brexit BritainDavid Shrigley is a mordant and rueful artist. I have a postcard by him that says DEATH in letters that get smaller from left to right, pithily expressing our doom as a diminishing scribble. His take on existence veers between the grimly comic and the cynically absurdist. It is therefore hard to take him entirely at face value when he claims his co