McFadyen portrays the Ulster politician, Ian Paisley, as a pop star worshipped by masked followers. It was inspired by a media event organised by Paisley in December 1981 when journalists were taken to a secret location to meet a group of farmers. At a given signal, they showed that they were armed and in possession of gun licenses. The demonstration implied they were ready to defend their homes with firearms, and could do so legally. McFadyen wrote:

'The picture is a satire of Paisley, but it is less about the Irish problem and more about the fact that Paisley's identity has been familiar and mysterious to me since I was a child. For decades he has been bellowing from the box in his medieval style. Just like any other media voice he is given prominence but strangled by television.'