Vandalising Statutes

In a ghastly foreign parody of the civilising libertarianism of Jacob Rees-Mogg, a minister in the upstart nation of India has demanded censorship of the statute books to remove all reference to the British Raj; although it is heartening to note that the law against sedition is apparently in no danger. Nevertheless, if other manifestations of Britishness are removed from Indian law, people may no longer feel compelled to donate shillings found on the street to their hard-working district collector; and an uncivilised tribe called the Sonthals, who have hitherto been exempted from the law of the land, may be forced to give up their quasi-Cabinet immunity. The evisceration of all that is pith-headed in the subcontinent's culture could even mean the demise of citizens' legal responsibility to make loud noises in order to frighten locusts: an admittedly primitive but unquestionably benign local variant of the British news media.