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They should be given back, with the condition that the receiver country is ... Functional and the artifacts will be on public display and safe/ won't be lost or damaged.
That being said, we shouldn't blame the British for all of this, they actually preserved a truly invaluable amount of human culture and history, and made it publicly available.
We shit on British colonialism a lot, but as someone with background from a former colony, they actually gave us a lot: medicine, sanitation, rule of law, basic technology, and they saved us from a centuries long genocide under the rule of the Muslims (even if they did oopsie-daisie some famines of their own).
Also, when we finally asked them to go, they mostly stood there for a few years saying 'listen!" in a firm voice, which is better than most of these things turned out.
Yeah let's just infantalize these places and put conditions on how they are to treat their property that we stole if we're nice enough to return it
Ask the taliban about whether they should get more of their stuff back.
Also how are those statues doing.
Sometimes there is an objective right and wrong that doesn't align with your mindless idealism because many people on this planet aren't innocent and are actually assholes.
Oh look, white savior garbage on Lemmy. Some people aren't crypto colonialists. It's none of England's business what happens to these stolen items when they're returned. I don't get to steal your car and refuse to return it because I don't believe you'll change the oil every 3000 miles.