It’s not just museums that are hoarding other peoples’ historical artefacts (Museums grapple with rise in demands for return of foreign treasures, 19 February). The British Library should return The Chronicles of the Kings of Mann and the Isles, a medieval manuscript, to the Manx nation.
Dr Doug Sandle
Leeds
• The precise trigger for the US to join the war against Germany was neither Churchillian diplomacy nor Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor (Letters, 18 February). Roosevelt declared war with Germany on 11 December 1941 after Hitler had, earlier that day, declared war on the US.
Rob Edwards
Norwich
• Lucy Mangan is a national treasure (though she will doubtless wince to be so described). Her TV reviews are so intelligent, so funny and so razor-sharp; the one on 100 Vaginas (G2, 20 February) was superb. I am eternally grateful for the pleasure she brings.
Nathalie Sfakianos
London
• You wait years for a mention of the Oldham Chronicle, then three come at once (Letters, 18 and 19 January; John Stalker obituary, 19 January).
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• Does anyone else break into singing and get the earworm of the 1966 hit Bus Stop by the Hollies every time the work “backstop” is mentioned?
Professor Mike Elliott
Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Is it time to rename the home secretary as Sajid Javert (Javid faces legal threat after move to strip Isis recruit of citizenship, 20 February)?
Tony Cass
Gex, France
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