From graffiti and street art to massive corporate-funded structures such as the Ebbsfleet Landmark (the size of the Statue of Liberty, twice as tall as Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North), public art has never been more in vogue. Steve Platt, a reformed ‘graffitist’, surveys the artistic landscape

As the western world winds its way through the 40th anniversaries of 1968 and the ‘summer of love’, Steve Platt looks back at the role of cannabis in the ‘counter culture’ and how people on both sides of the political and cultural divide believed that a hardy psychoactive plant could change the world. He wonders how it could ever have aroused such passions – both for and against its use – and asks why it’s still illegal

Steve Platt examines the recent prosecution of a 15-year old for his use of the word ‘cult’ on a scientology protest placard.