Why do the people at passport control have to be so humourless? In the latest London Review of Books, Andrew O’Hagan passes on a story he heard from Seamus Heaney, about a trip the latter made to Birmingham at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Heaney told him:
“Your man stopped me and he said, ‘What’s the purpose of your visit?’ and I said, ‘To educate the English,’ and that was it. Kept me there under the Prevention of Terrorism. I had to explain it was a joke.”
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