in the frame that went off at sotheby s as soon as the girl with the balloon was sold. and as for why banksy chose glasgow this is the reason. right outside the venue, for more than a0 years, glaswegians have been putting road cones on top of a statue of the first duke of wellington. banksy has declared it his favourite work of art in the uk. this is something, the cone on the head, that s been going on in glasgow since the mid 1980s. and local tour guides approve of his choice. fantastic, i go along with that, that sounds pretty cool to me. banksy s last glasgow show was in 2001, before he was famous. as soon as it finished the venue painted over his works. this show could tour the world. colin paterson, bbc news, glasgow. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich.
his solution? wear a disguise, go in and put them up himself. and there is a real behind the scenes element to this show. how his works were made, including the famous shredder hidden in the frame that went off at sotheby s as soon as the girl with the balloon was sold. and as for why banksy chose glasgow this is the reason. right outside the venue, for more than 40 years, glaswegians have been putting road cones on top of a statue of the first duke of wellington. banksy has declared it his favourite work of art in the uk. this is something, the cone on the head, that s been going on in glasgow since the mid 1980s. and local tour guides approve of his choice. fantastic, i go along with that, that sounds pretty cool to me. banksy s last glasgow show was in 2001, before he was famous. as soon as it finished the venue painted over his works. this show could tour the world.
and it was true because i was on the ground at the time, that single event the following day that swelled the ranks of the ira by untold multiples because people simply would not be prepared to accept that kind of act of violence by the state against its own citizens. so it is quite a journey from there to this alliance with the duke of wellington. now, long before you did the water campaign, long before you did the sewage campaign, you ve alluded to it as well as being a music professional. you re a campaigner for the rights of musicians. you d moved here. you said you didn t want your little boy to have the same sort of upbringing as you. how easy was it for you, though, to operate in the british establishment. that s why you to do to live a change in the music industry now water with the sort of background and with the sort of values you ve been brought up with.
what did they teach you, mum and dad, you said it was freudian about the politics you do now in which and we ll come to discuss this in the current context. your one minute having an alliance with the labour party, the next time is with the duke of wellington. you are forming cross party alliances. it goes back to my father. some people might say that he was being brilliantly insightful, some possibly saying foolish, trying to reach out to the protestant working classes and go all of us as a class are being exploited by industrialists and we need to cut out this sectarianism and the things that divide us, because as a group, we will be better, stronger and bigger and more capable of dictating and controlling the future for the working classes in northern ireland. did they also make you believe that change was possible? because plenty of people growing up in that sort of politics, that sort of disadvantage, mightjust think, forget it. life is never going to work for me. well, it instill
the son of a republican irish family and the duke of wellington on the same side of an argument. that s a genius move. utterly brilliant. well done. and that was the alliance that produced some change in the regulation of the water companies and maybe led up to this moment that we had the other day in which the water companies issue this apology and promised to spend ten billion. now, i spoke to you on the today programme that morning. thinking you d be very political. and you blew it up. maybe this is what that thing about being a punk campaigner. you basically said you didn t really believe a word of it. they should give the 10 billion back to ordinary people. well, as we now know, it s less than in fact, it s a week ago today that they made that apology. and as it turns out, it didn t even take a week before united utilities, severn trent water, two of the biggest sewage dumpers in the country, have now announced in the last 48 hours they are going to pay