 In her lyrics, she challenged Lennon's statements about destruction and "the constitution", and urged him to "clean" his brain.Challenged on his political stance, Lennon exchanged open letters with John Hoyland, a student radical from Keele University, in the pages of "Black Dwarf".Hoyland wrote the first letter in late October 1968, expecting that Lennon's drugs bust and the intolerance shown towards Ono, as a Japanese woman in Britain, would make him more sympathetic to a radical agenda.