GOLDSMITH'S LAW
Memoirs of an Attorney-General


 

Ye citizens of England are in fearful tumult, a consequence of recent publick discharge of explosives by Arab piccaninnies. Miss Melanie Phillips, writing in ye popular prints, is shrille in her condemnation.


 

I summon the Commissioner of Londonne Constables, and humbly present my Proposals For Ye Charge Of Treason To Be Laid Upon All Who Incite Violence Against His Majestie's Government.


 

Ye Home Secretary is nonplussed.


 

I caution him most ardently against Dissent, as this might be construed a betrayalle of ye Prime Minister, a treasonous matter of its self!


 

By means of ill humour and ye encouragement of others, Miss Phillips now hath brought herself to boylinge point.

 

Meanwhyle, in Belmarsh Gaol, a vile Mohammedan learns that ye fruits of blasphemy are bitter indeed...