September 08, 2025
By JamRadio News | September 8, 2025
In the early hours of Sunday morning, the Royal Courts of Justice became an unlikely canvas for Britain’s most elusive artist. Banksy’s latest mural—raw, confrontational, and unmistakably political—depicts a judge in full robes striking a protester with a gavel. The protester’s placard is blank. Blood splatters. CCTV cameras are turned away.
The message is chillingly clear: justice isn’t blind—it’s weaponized.
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The mural appeared just days after the Metropolitan Police arrested over 850 people during protests against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. Banksy’s timing is no coincidence. His work lands like a verdict: a damning commentary on the state’s crackdown on dissent and the judiciary’s complicity in silencing protest.
Authorities responded swiftly. Within hours, the mural was covered in plastic sheeting and surrounded by metal barriers. Guards were stationed. The art was treated not as expression, but as threat.
For activists and legal reformers, the image resonates deeply. It captures what many have long argued: that the institutions meant to uphold justice are increasingly used to suppress it. The blank placard is a haunting symbol of censored voices. The gavel, once a tool of order, becomes an instrument of violence.
JamRadio has long reported on the erosion of civil liberties and the weaponization of law. Banksy’s mural doesn’t just echo these concerns—it amplifies them. It forces the public to confront a truth too often buried beneath press releases and courtroom jargon.
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