Dedication: Dedicated to Mrs. Dora Grundy
'Stephensen followed the Sink of Solitude with a bolder and better lampoon, this time on Jix, Sir William Joynson-Hicks. Entitled Policeman of the Lord: A Political Satire, and illustrated once again by Beresford Egan, this was issued as from the 'Sophistocles Press', Bloomsbury, and appeared either late in 1928 or early in 1929 before the general election at which Joynson-Hicks's Conservative party was tipped out of office. In his preface Stephensen urged ... [Joynson-Hick's] Twickenham constituents to 'Vote for Jix', since parliament 'has need of a certain amount of comic relief.' Stephensen reminded his readers that he considered The Well of Loneliness a 'dull and insipid book', and that the principle of censorship was his target,...In The Policeman of the Lord lampoon, one of his wittiest verse creations, Stephensen compared the evangelical Joynson-Hicks with God, Jix being not only that exalted gentleman's protege but also his charlady and 'copper'. He was 'Mussolini Jix' as well as Martin Luther reincarnate, and as the home secretary's justification was Christian morality, it was to heaven Stephensen turned for judgement...In his preface Stephensen affirmed that 'Works will be written dealing with sex in the frankest possible manner', and that 'a new English renaissance may even come' which 'Jix and all his policemen' would be unable to restrain.' (Craig Munro Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P. R. Stephensen (1984): 71).
