{"id":423180,"date":"2026-05-12T02:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:14:27","slug":"most-britons-like-the-new-banksy-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423180\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Britons like the new Banksy statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"e3k66\">Notably less popular is Kissing Coppers, a stencil of two male police officers in uniform locking lips. This piece proves divisive, with 37% of Britons saying they like the artwork, but 35% saying they dislike it.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2a71c\">Attitudes are subject to a political and generational split \u2013 most older Britons and Tory\/Reform voters dislike the piece, while it is generally popular among younger Britons and Labour\/Lib Dem\/Green voters.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"60b22\">That said, Kissing Coppers is still notably less popular among Labour and Lib Dem voters, and 25-49 year olds, than any of Banksy\u2019s other works, and while this is less obviously the case for Greens and 18-24 year olds, it still remains bottom of the pack for these latter two groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notably less popular is Kissing Coppers, a stencil of two male police officers in uniform locking lips. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-423180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}