Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy, Opinion, 16 June 2023After it was announced in June that Banksy would be having a rare, retrospective exhibition in Glasgow I reappropriated two of the artists most iconic works to illustrate Boris Johnsons governments disastrous handling of the pandemic and what that cost so many. This was in light of a damning Privileges Committee report on Partygate and also feels prescient at the time of writing as we learn more from the ongoing Covid Inquiry. Illustration: Ben

While better known for its owls

an apron and washing-up gloves attached to a mannequin

wearing a blue T-shirt)

He developed the resulting under-exposed picture for far longer than usual

After his death in September at the age of 81

Presented on museum-grade C-Type Matt photographic paper stock

At the age of just 10

applies his makeup at the Clowns International convention at Butlins

"It feels a wonderfully positive thing to do in solidarity — during this remarkably difficult time"

when he conceded a two-foot putt on the final hole

in a photoshoot for the Guardian’s fashion pages on 6 July 1976

I wanted to create an image that felt precious and spiritual