Commentator Iain Dale is not a former Tory MP (“Conservatives see a chance ‘to discredit socialist thinking once and for all’”, News, last week, page 5). He has been a Conservative candidate but never a member of parliament. And Ramsay MacDonald did not remain as prime minister until he lost his seat in the 1935 election (Graphic, page 4, last week). He exchanged places with Stanley Baldwin and became Lord President of the Council in June 1935.
Apologies to Shirley Franklin. We introduced an error into her letter last week (page 48). Her aunt Rosalind Franklin, the distinguished scientist played by Nicole Kidman in the play Photograph 51, worked at King’s College, London, not Cambridge.
Contrary to “This Much I Know” (Magazine, last week, page 11) The Handmaid’s Tale was not Margaret Atwood’s first book. It was published in 1985, 16 years after her first novel, The Edible Woman (1969).
The formula under which refugees are distributed among the German regions is the Königstein formula, not Königsberg (“Germans start to wonder how much longer they can open their doors and hearts to refugees”, World News, last week, page 30).
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