Mr Hare told BBC 5 live it was the “first theft of this type in living memory” from the stately home - the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill - adding it had “a sophisticated security system”.
“But what has happened has happened,” he said.
“So clearly we need to challenge ourselves on that.”
I find a solid gold toilet art installation difficult to nail down (something which, I’m sure, generally meets artists’ expressed desire to inspire discussion). The only thing that I can draw from such a toilet is possibly some comment on conspicuous consumption (?), or perhaps some critique of the ‘one-percenters’. Maybe. If I sat on one of these toilets, perhaps some truth would be revealed to me. I’d have an epiphany, like Martin Luther.
Plus, dispite the gold it isn’t fancy in any other way. It’s a simple, modern public washroom style model. I think there’s a certain old-world, old-money comment there about an abundance of wealth, with the lack of the history and tradition that some people believe is supposed to accompany it.