“Cameron is abusing Magna Carta in abolishing our rights” (Comment, last week, page 40) said Winston Churchill sent his attorney general to help draft the European Convention on Human Rights. The convention was signed in 1950 (although it was not ratified until 1951). Prime minister between July 1945 and October 1951, when the convention drafting took place, was Clement Attlee – not Winston Churchill.
Apologies to baffled bridge players: North was dealer last week, not West (Bridge, New Review, page 46).
“Critics hate it. So why can’t readers get enough of the dark new side of Grey?” (In Focus, last week, page 31), listed Nikesh Shukla among the winners of the Fiction Uncovered annual prize, in association with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. We meant David Whitehouse. Apologies.
Further to For the Record’s correction last week on black actors only recently playing the title role in Shakespeare’s Othello, Gordon Heath portrayed him in 1950 in a production directed by the Observer’s Kenneth Tynan, repeating it for BBC TV in 1955. And Rudolph Walker took the role at the Malvern festival in 1966.
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