Never mind John Crace smuggling Bruce Springsteen song titles into his sketches (Letters, 21 June), I would hope that given Monday’s political developments we’ll be seeing the Grateful Dead’s He’s Gone getting an outing.
Gabriel Brodetsky
Marsden, West Yorkshire
• 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
• Derek Niemann’s account of nettles (Country diary, 17 June) 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
• I was sad to read the news that the Major oak has died (‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies, 18 June). It’s made worse remembering the senseless vandalism that happened to the 500-year-old oak at Whitewebbs Park and, of course, the Sycamore Gap outrage. I hope we start to value our ancient woodlands.
Jude Carr
London
• In Sheffield you can see trams destined for Halfway (Letters, 22 June). Philosophically, one could argue that they will never get there.
Peter Gray
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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