Banksy  has confirmed that, as was widely believed, he was behind a new London statue of a man blinded by a flag. The anonymous Bristol-based street artist created a sculpture of a man in a suit walking forward off a plinth carrying a flag that was covering his face, which was erected in Waterloo Place, central London, near statues of Edward VII, Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War Memorial. It was installed in the early hours of yesterday morning (April 29) and though it contained Banksy’s signature, the artist confirmed it was his later by posting it on his Instagram account.…