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Faced with adverse legal advice, the government has reinstated local elections and will pay \u00a3100,000 for Reform UK\u2019s legal costs (Report, 17 February). But last Friday, faced with a unanimous unlawful verdict from three judges on the proscription of Palestine Action, the government intends to appeal. Why is it that the law, both in the UK and internationally, can always be ignored when it comes to Palestine? One of the finest songs inspired by a book (From Bront\u00eb to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature \u2013 ranked!, 12 February) is Woody Guthrie\u2019s Tom Joad, based on John Steinbeck\u2019s novel The Grapes of Wrath. In 17 verses, Guthrie distilled the essence of Steinbeck\u2019s harrowing chronicle of the Joad family\u2019s enforced migration from Oklahoma to California in the Great Depression. You say (Pass notes, 16 February) cabbage is \u201chaving a moment\u201d. You\u2019re a bit behind the times. My daughter has sung at the biggest cabbage festival in the world, the Dithmarscher Kohltage, in Germany. Oh, and my granddaughter \u2013 born there \u2013 is eligible to be \u201ccabbage queen\u201d. Two thousand words on pigeons, with no mention of Tom Lehrer\u2019s song Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (The Norwich pigeon wars: how birds are dividing a UK city, 17 February)? Time for a revival! I have to question the numbers given in your report (18 February). If 45% births are by C-section and 44% vaginal deliveries, how do the other 11% of babies get out? Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faced with adverse legal advice, the government has reinstated local elections and will pay \u00a3100,000 for Reform UK\u2019s legal costs (Report, 17 February). But last Friday, faced with a unanimous unlawful verdict from three judges on the proscription of Palestine Action, the government intends to appeal. Why is it that the law, both in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22644,919,662,8915,3580,134,324,1240,571],"class_list":{"0":"post-44897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-accept","9":"tag-action","10":"tag-challenge","11":"tag-dispute","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-labour","14":"tag-legal","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-ruling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Phil Tate<\/strong>
Chester<\/em><\/p>\n
Mike Pender<\/strong>
Cardiff<\/em><\/p>\n
Hilary Brown<\/strong>
Kincraig, Kingussie<\/em><\/p>\n
Tim Gossling<\/strong>
Cambridge<\/em><\/p>\n
Linda Weir<\/strong>
Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire<\/em><\/p>\n