Our interview with Man Booker prize winner Paul Beatty quoted him saying that 48% of women in the US voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election. The Pew Research Centre however, gives the figure as 42%. (“ ‘People say they don’t recognise Trump’s America – but for me it’s always existed’ ”, News, last week, page 7).
“Beyond good and evil with Gove and Trump” (New Review, last week, page 5) said: “Encounters with Trump that appear calm usually suggest the school bus driver in the Dirty Harry film The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976), interacting as politely as possible with DeVeren Bookwalter’s vividly unhinged pyschopath.” The bus driver in question actually appears in Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) in which Andy Robinson plays the psychopath.
In attempting to correct “The Silk Road is back in business” (News, 15 January, page 10), For the Record made an error last week. The East Wind train’s 34 containers (not wagons) did complete all of the 12,000 km journey by rail; they were lifted from one flatbed wagon to another where rail gauges change at the China-Kazakhstan border and at the Belarus-Poland border.
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