Why are Tory councillors in Essex censoring artwork? | Tim Burrows

A boorish section of the UK right doesn’t get that you don’t have to be left wing to appreciate art, even art you disagree withFrom my house in Southend I can hear giant explosions reverberating along the flat Essex fringe. These blasts, from the Ministry of Defence-owned Foulness Island at the mouth of the Thames estuary, sometimes sound like a car boot the size of a small town being repeatedly shut. Other days they make my desk vibrate and the window frames click. Recently my daugh