An opinion piece about space travel said Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo flight on 11 July “won’t even technically go into space, merely quite high in the sky”. To clarify, this is based on the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale’s definition of space being 100km above the surface of the Earth, and the spaceship having reached an altitude of 89km in test flights. In the US, where Virgin Galactic is based, the air force and Nasa define space as being 80km above the planet’s surface (This space race has its downside…, 4 July, page 37).
An article about Labour’s win in the Batley and Spen byelection said: “The mood of British politics would have been very different today if just over 300 votes had gone the other way [to the Conservatives].” That should have said just over 160 votes (A late surge and an unexpected win: how Kim Leadbeater lifted Labour, 4 July, page 6).
Due to an editing error, we referred to the exhibitions group Informa and said that “nearly two-thirds of voting shareholders rejected its latest executive bonus scheme”. In fact, the vote related to executive pay in the company’s remuneration report (Big pay deals that fell foul of shareholders, 27 June, page 59).
Brrr! A feature about lidos erroneously said the pool at Saltdean in Brighton was unheated (Different strokes, 20 June, Magazine, page 31).
An article said that the 1923 film Gold Diggers was “about the Depression”; the reference should have been to a film of 10 years later, Gold Diggers of 1933 (Musicals are back... and they’re retuned for a new generation, 20 June, page 36)
Other recently amended articles include:
No evidence and little research – it’s no wonder that women and babies continue to die
Desperate graduates rush to study ‘panic masters’ after job rejections
‘We don’t need to be cured or fixed’: writers speak out on autism
Write to roam: why armchair travelling is back in fashion
I love the football team but can’t get tribal about England. What’s going on?
Sunderland is coming up shining, despite Brexit and the pandemic
Why science can’t resist the allure of Venus: new missions to Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour
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