The article is an excerpt from James Callaghan's memoir as the former prime minister of Britain. At one point, he quotes Roy Campbell: "I summed up the situation to my private secretary, Kenneth Stowe, in a verse I am apt to quote when faced with a thicket of procedure but little substance. It is by Roy Campbell, the South African poet: You praise the firm restraint with which they write-- / I'm with you there of course; / They use the snaffle and the bit all right, / But where's the bloody horse?"