gagging for it

'Jack Straw has the largest and most hard-core collection of pornographic literature in the country,' Alan Travis, The Guardian's political editor announced last week at the launch of his new 'secret history of obscenity in Britain' - Bound and Gagged.

Well, almost.

It seems the collection comes as a perk with the job of Home Secretary - rather like the official residence.

For those who require further information - aspirant home secretaries, for example - the collection is held in an archive in the Home Office known as C4; makes you wonder what's in A1.