An article headlined “Two cheers for the tidal lagoon” (In Focus, 15 January, page 30 said: “Old coal, gas and oil power stations will have to be… replaced with renewable plants capable of generating billions of gigawatts of electricity.” A gigawatt is a unit of power equal to one billion watts; we meant billions of watts.
Ben Robinson is chairman of Burton Albion, not West Bromwich Albion. (“Clough prepares for Forest talks while Reading return to third”, Sport last week, page 6).
Dictionary corner: “Some historians… criticise [Mahatma] Gandhi for aligning his politics with spiritualism…” We meant spirituality. Spiritualism is the belief that the dead have the ability to contact the living. (“A British film with a Punjabi heart”, In Focus, 15 January, page 31).
Our recipe for sautéed potatoes with olives, chard and cheese (Observer Magazine, last week, page 41) included an instruction to cut up a handful of chard, but then didn’t say what to do with it. Just as the potatoes are crisping, tuck the pieces of chard in among them to warm for a minute or so. Delicious.
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