letters to Straw

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 4 09:44:19 PST 1998


Jim heartfield wrote:


>A note of caution on opening up a conversation with Jack Straw. When my
>parents lived in Leeds when Jack Straw was president of the University
>Student's Union, my father once got talking to him over a drink and
>invited him back. Five hours of tedium later, my mother said 'don't ever
>bring him into this house again, or we'll die of boredom.'

Isn't Straw the one whose kid was busted for marijuana possession? Has he tried a malignant boredom defense?

Doug



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