After a year of unethical bankers, swindling MPs and the defacement of war memorials by students, I am starting to think that the government is looking in the wrong place for Britain's "character".Joanne Harrower Brussels* SIR – A letter to the editor stated that "because of the upper limit on payroll taxes, Social Security is regressive and redistributes wealth to the rich" (December 4th).
There's a correlation between the demise of murals with the loss of funding, the moratorium and the defacement of historic murals.
My neighbours and I have all fallen victim to the defacement of our homes with hideous and indecipherable graffiti; we have suffered the drunken destruction of our private property, including rainwater down-pipes, garden fences, motor vehicles, and even an incident involving a broken living-room window.
A statement from the Mayor's office announced that fifty additional officers would be deployed to "target narcotics-related crime as well as misdemeanor offenses like littering, the defacement of property, and theft".
The effort to remove the Confederate battle flag must not be associated, as is already happening, with the defacement of statues and monuments honoring the Confederate dead.
He accepted public offices which were not open to Catholics, and, as an official of the Stratford community, oversaw the defacement of pre-Reformation images in the Guild Chapel and the sale of papistical copes and vestments.
Return and you will face the absence or the defacement of what you treasured.
And forget about writing graffiti with a can of spray paint, as Occupy protesters so rudely discovered, because these days even writing with chalk on the sidewalk counts as the defacement of public property, and the sidewalk is exactly where your face will be, with a knee jammed in your spine, a hand over your mouth, and your head in a chokehold.
A Catholic leader in Haifa told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his church condemns violent protests around the artwork and supports the artist's critique of capitalism — but not through the defacement of the crucifix.
She and her two daughters were harrassed at every turn and she finished her justifiable rant against the men, the disrespect for women, the defacement of the architecture with, "not my country, not my city".
In the postwar period, aesthetics were often a catalyst for the defacement of art.
