You can’t walk ten paces around the East End without seeing a picture of a girl hugging a Polaris missile or Ronald McDonald humping a Dyson. The streets have been assualted by smug ‘pranksters’ stenciling their political concerns on buildings and scampering off before the police can smell their paint/pretension.

These days, what with everyone painting their political opinion, the occasions when you actually see something artistic/funny/smart are few and very far between. But it’s easy to dismiss it all as garbage. And as we enter George Bush’s last year in office, maybe it’s timely to look over the best bits of graffiti his warring regime and simian visage has inspired.

* All images are taken from Street Art and the War on Terror, a new coffee-table catalog of spray-painted protests from walls across the world. To win a copy, email us.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Baghdad, Iraq (caption reads: Hey American! Take your oil!)

Ramallah, West Bank

Melbourne, Australia

Seattle, USA

London, England