{"id":507467,"date":"2026-06-23T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507467\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:56:08","slug":"its-time-to-revisit-the-grateful-dead-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507467\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to revisit the Grateful Dead | Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never mind John Crace smuggling\u00a0Bruce Springsteen song\u00a0titles into his sketches (Letters, 21 June<\/a>), I would hope that given Monday\u2019s political developments we\u2019ll be seeing the\u00a0Grateful Dead\u2019s He\u2019s Gone<\/a> getting an outing.
Gabriel Brodetsky
Marsden, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n

The Italians are still strong contenders for the record of rapid changes of leaders. In AD69 they had four emperors in a single year.
Chris Leyland
Marsden, Huddersfield<\/p>\n

Derek Niemann\u2019s account of nettles (Country diary, 17 June<\/a>) reminded me of a running friend who takes a rather different view. Far from avoiding them, he deliberately runs through patches of nettles, claiming the resulting stings gives him huge extra oomph for the rest of his run. Whether this is sports science or masochism remains open to debate.
Ian Garner
Oxenhope, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n

I was sad to read the news that\u00a0the Major oak has died (\u2018Most famous tree in the world\u2019: Sherwood Forest\u2019s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies, 18 June<\/a>). It\u2019s made worse remembering the senseless vandalism that happened to the 500-year-old oak<\/a> at Whitewebbs Park and, of\u00a0course,\u00a0the Sycamore Gap outrage<\/a>. I hope we start to value our ancient woodlands.
Jude Carr
London<\/p>\n

In Sheffield you can see trams destined for Halfway (Letters, 22 June<\/a>). Philosophically, one could argue that they will never\u00a0get there.
Peter Gray
Chesterfield, Derbyshire<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Never mind John Crace smuggling\u00a0Bruce Springsteen song\u00a0titles into his sketches (Letters, 21 June), I would hope that given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-507467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}