Remember George Monbiot’s attempt to carry out a citizen’s arrest on John Bolton at a literary festival in rural England? Sadly we never found any footage of the stunt, but here is Bolton’s extraordinary reply to Monbiot in the new British magazine, Standpoint.

The former ambassador to the UN is on typically cantankerous form, dishing out insults and washing his bloody hands in the process,

The would-be King George (George III in his later years comes to mind) believed I was a major architect of the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy – thus proving, among other things, that he hadn’t read my book.

He goes on,

In the case of the “citizen’s arrest”, the pernicious idea is that, based on their own moral self-evaluation, people can take the law into their own hands and determine who is a criminal… This is, in the worst case, the path first to anarchy and then to fascism.

Exactly, John. We wouldn’t want anybody taking the law into their own hands, would we?