Is mockery the best weapon? A Wiltshire builder has used it to get his own back on a local politician, in a satirical tradition which goes back many centuries.
Meet the gargoyle who runs a town council
Old joke: Gargoyles based on real people are a feature of many medieval buildings. Glossary
Grotesque - A figure or face carved out of stone and fixed to the roof or walls of a building. They are similar to gargoyles, but gargoyles include a spout for water to drain through.
Juvenal - Decimus Junius Juvenalis was a Roman satirical poet.
Franz Kafka - A 20th-Century novelist and short story writer, known for works including The Metamorphosis.
Bureaucracy - A system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organisation that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully.
Arab Spring - A series of mass protests across the Arab World against dictatorships that had stood for decades. In Tunisia, the protesters succeeded in creating a democratic government, but many other countries collapsed into civil war or experienced new dictatorships.
Mohammed Morsi - The president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013, who was removed in a coup.
Apathy - Lack of interest or enthusiasm.
Pessimism - Always expecting the worst.