A piece on child refugees detained on the Greek island of Chios referred to an apparently racist placard at a demonstration which depicted “two black figures attacking the island with knives”. In fact, it was a reproduction of a newspaper cartoon, critical of Greek immigration policy, that depicted – in silhouette – the Greek prime minister and minister for immigration injuring a mastic tree, the symbol of the island (“Abandoned, abused and forgotten”, World News, 18 June, page 22).
We wrongly attributed the quote: “Of course, not every author of feminist science fiction was taught how to make a fire in the wilderness by her (or his) parents,” to the novelist Margaret Atwood. It was written by Naomi Alderman (“What lies beneath the brave new world of feminist dystopia sci-fi?”, In Focus, 25 June, page 31).
Last week, For the Record said James Wharton was local government minister. Marcus Jones was reappointed to that role last month.
A diagram headlined “Lions’ try from nowhere” (Sport, last week, page 3), showing a Sean O’Brien try against the All Blacks, was marred by the key, which called the British and Irish Lions’ effort an “England attack”.
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