Venezuela’s claim to Guyana’s western region, based on a Spanish colonial-era map (Report, 15 December), offers a useful precedent in solving the refugee problem. If Britain reclaimed Calais using the same argument, refugees who reach the Channel coast could be deemed to have arrived in Britain, and evaluated without further delay or risk. This idea is no more absurd than the government’s Rwanda plan.
John Edmondson
Holywell, Flintshire
• Is it time that online retailers made the gift message mandatory? So far this week, we’ve had a case of wine, another case of wine, some expensive liqueur chocolates and a box of multicoloured socks, all anonymous. What’s the etiquette for canvassing our friends to find out who the kind donors are?
Mary Love and John Post
Newent, Gloucestershire
