• In an interview last week with Paul Mescal we said the actor was engaged to the musician Phoebe Bridgers; this had previously been reported elsewhere but has not been confirmed by the couple and Mescal did not comment on his personal life in the interview (“Masculinity can be expressed in many ways”, 6 November, Magazine, p8). The same article said, in reference to method acting, that Marlon Brando spent three weeks living in a veterans’ hospital to prepare for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire; it was in fact for his film debut, The Men.
• A news article said that Tory MPs were being targeted “over their failure to oppose a ban on fracking”; as the piece went on to make clear, it was their failure to support a ban that was being highlighted (“Labour attack ads target red wall Tory MPs in overhaul of social media”, 6 November, p18).
• The theoretical physicist Felix Flicker referred to “a single lump of stuff” having 10 to the power 23 atoms, not “1,023 atoms” as an article said due to an error introduced during editing (“Q&A”, 6 November, New Review, p22).
• The bait diggers mentioned in an article were seeking lugworm, not lungworm (“A chance to forage before dinner”, 30 October, Walking, p18). In the same supplement, we misnamed Rydal Water as Lake Rydal. Our style guide points out that, with the exception of Bassenthwaite Lake, bodies of water in the Lake District do not have “lake” in their names (“Go with the flow”, p10).
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