Jonathan Jones is right about marginalising Scottish artists (Bus Gallery may get tangled in the Highland wool of nationalism, 19 August). The same applies to England. Drawing such boundaries is like herding cats – look what has happened to the Tate at Millbank, revised as Tate Britain. A lovely building now cut adrift from the rest of the world. Art doesn’t work like that.
Humphrey Ocean RA
London
• I am envious of the north of England. The reason for this is that they have a north of England editor at the Guardian who succeeds in making the paper feel like a more representative national newspaper than some of your broadsheet rivals. Is it wishful thinking to hope for a Wales editor sometime in the near future – especially one that could engage with Welsh language content?
Gareth Owen
St Andrews, Fife
• It is interesting to read that education minister Nicky Morgan wishes every eight-year-old to be enrolled at their local library (Walliams teams up with minister to help boost child literacy, 19 August). Will she be asking her ministerial colleagues responsible for local authority funding to reverse the tsunami of spending cuts which have closed so many of them?
Joseph Nicholas
London
• Canal du Midi to lose more trees to disease says Jack Hazelnut (Jacques Noisette), spokesman for the waterways authority (Report, 17 August).
Margaret Waddy
Cambridge
• Jam jar = tramcar (Letters, 19 August).
John Batts
Banbury, Oxfordshire
