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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Top marks for the bayeux tapestry - Caught on Camera

King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France Van-Heel view the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum, London, 2 September 2026.
King Charles, Queen Camilla, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron and Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel at the Bayeux tapestry exhibition at the British Museum this month. Photograph: Richard Pohle/The Times/PA

A five-star review of the Bayeux tapestry (The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth, 3 September). Even creatives from nearly a thousand years ago are subject to the modern media’s determination to rate art. Still, they will be pleased to have impressed the Guardian.
Andrew Vincent
Westmancote, Worcestershire

• While I understand Angela Eagle’s advice to “store … a bit of food that can keep you going for a while” (Report, 3 September), I fear that this will lead to the kind of panic buying that we had during Covid, when those who can, financially and physically, will stagger out of supermarkets laden with supplies, while those of us less fortunate will find shelves stripped bare. Perhaps we need to bring back rationing?
Jean Austin
Crawley, West Sussex

• “Do the rich behave worse than the rest of us?” asks your report (Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study, 3 September). How do you think they got rich?
John Roberts
London

• Interested to hear that JD Vance would not be shocked “if the antichrist was walking among us” (Report, 2 September). Has he tried looking in the Oval Office?
Chris Ainsworth
Rawtenstall, Lancashire

• Sure signs our summer of sunshine is over today (Letters, 31 August): raincoats, calendars and diaries for 2027 on sale, charity Christmas catalogues in the post and a shop-window display of Halloween pumpkins.
Valerie Gidlow
Faversham, Kent

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