I note that in the photo of King Charles visiting Scotland in your print edition (Monarch north of the glens, 29 July), he has a dagger tucked into his sock. How does this fit with the man arrested recently by armed police for carrying garden tools home from his allotment ? No doubt the king had armed police with him who took a different view of someone carrying a weapon in public.
Mike Lowcock
Sandbach, Cheshire

Nigel Farage is surely right that lawlessness on the streets is being compounded by the arrival of “droves of unvetted men into our towns and cities” (Editorial, 29 July). Perhaps he could simply ask his