 Bolingbroke and Pulteney ran a periodical called "The Craftsman" in which they incessantly denounced the Prime Minister's policies.Walpole was also satirised and parodied extensively; he was often compared to the criminal Jonathan Wild as, for example, John Gay did in his farcical "Beggar's Opera".Walpole's other enemies included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson.