On her gracious acceptance of the Freedom of the City of Oxford, doubtless impervious to all the awesome privileges (irresistible to the vast majority of us) that this unique distinction encompasses, how weak at the knees Aung San Suu Kyi must have gone on being photographed alongside the one and only councillor John Tanner (last Thursday’s Oxford Mail), widely tipped, of course, to be the initial recipient of the proposed and long overdue Nobel Prize for public lavatory refurbishment.

DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford