It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]

a telling blow

And this makes sense because, as with Burchill, Amis’s philosemitism is quasi-sexual and mucho ridiculous.

A glove was suspended / Spacious and wondrous, in art-fetters fastened, / Which was fashioned entirely by touch of the craftman / From the dragon’s skin by the devil’s devices: / He down in its depths would do me unsadly / One among many, deed-doer raging, / Though sinless he saw me; not so could it happen / When I in my anger upright did stand.