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Sir,
I can’t help but be struck by the similarity between the solicitor regularly featured in your pages, Andrew Milne, and Star Wars’ Emperor Palpatine. One ruthlessly pursues law-abiding Jedi throughout the galaxy and the other... Could they be in any way related?
BEN HOLMAN

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