The defaced mural in Willingham Terrace

CAN’T we have nice things?

Whatever your thoughts on the fluid nature of walls and street art, Loretto’s mural in Kentish Town of Zelenskyy and Putin playing rock paper scissors was a striking addition in Willingham Terrace.

Various vandalism in Willingham Terrace

A reader, however, sends these pictures charting the regular vandalism.

The original soon after it was first painted

It may be that murals have short shelf lives and this is the law of the spray can, but there’s little to enjoy in a wall splattered in this way.