Couldn’t Banksy be called a vandal too? | Brief letters

Banksy mural defaced | ‘Don’t learn to type’ | Plastic-wrapped fish | Folk music | Pop and rockYour report (Report, 30 January) says a Banksy mural was “defaced by vandals”. But why is Banksy’s work “art” while its erasure is merely the work of vandals? That one man can paint anything he likes on any property in the country, and have it unquestioningly praised simply because he’s famous, is a great example how our celebrity-obsessed inequalit