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Q. With reference to your 'Celebrity Problem' from Michael Ancram

regarding Mr Straw's spinelessness over Zimbabwe, might I suggest that the dispossessed farmers have missed an opportunity? What is to stop them from

organising a squatting rota to bivouac the Straw house in Peckham and give the Foreign Secretary a dose of his own medicine? Such a sit-in would provide days of amusement for the tabloids, and cause such inconvenience and intrusion to the Straw household that the Foreign Secretary would soon be jolted out of his paralysing moral confusion.

Name and address withheld A. Thank you for this suggestion.