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Mind your language

How ‘ACAB’ links David Bowie and BLM

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

A favourite piece of graffiti to spray on the Cenotaph or the plinth of Churchill’s nearby statue is ACAB. It stands for ‘All coppers are bastards’, though Americans substitute the word cops for coppers. In graffiti form it is sometimes rendered 1312, from the place of the letters in the alphabet.

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