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The UK government occasionally does give things back on the understanding that they can be returned for a bit when required...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone


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libraryofbabel10/01/2024

The Stone of Scone getting returned to Scotland is a bad example. Sure, it’s symbolic, but Scotland is in the UK and so this was really just moving something around within the UK borders.

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tivert10/01/2024

I don't really see how that example is "giv[ing] things back." That stone is still the property of the British government and kept continuously on British territory.

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