Sir Mark Rowley doth protest too much about policing culture wars (Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest, 3 September). Instead, he should be asking which jobsworth sergeant or inspector sent armed officers to London’s Heathrow airport to arrest a middle-aged writer over a tweet.
John Pelling
Coddenham, Suffolk
• A St George’s flag appeared round the corner from my house last week attached, very professionally, high on a lamp‑post (Letters, 3 September). I remembered that I had a couple of small “Say no to racism” stickers, and I placed one under the flag at eye level, believing that even an overt racist would hesitate to remove it. I am pleased to report that only the rain has attempted that. Maybe it’s possible to dilute any perceived antagonism with a little positivity.
Chris Hardman
Manchester
• Adrian Chiles writes: “A 600‑mile (965km) round trip to watch a football match? Madness” (I saw a poor, lonely man wandering the A4 – then realised the sheer joy of where he was heading, 3 September). What about Carlisle and Truro, whose fans face a round trip of 870 miles. Is there a longer journey in English football?
Barry Norman (Carlisle fan in exile)
Drighlington, Leeds
• So the land of the free has returned to Russia a deserter from its army (‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow, 3 September). Words fail me.
Tony Jackson
Applecross, Wester Ross, Highlands
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