Many readers spotted that we had confused the mustachioed, grey-haired Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leader, 1937-1940) with the mustachioed, grey-haired Anthony Eden (Conservative leader, 1955-1957) in a panel of pictures illustrating Tory leaders since Churchill (News, page 10-11, last week). Apologies. And while the Profumo scandal of 1963 contributed to the resignation of the mustachioed, grey-haired Harold Macmillan (Conservative leader, 1957-1963), it was a debilitating prostate operation that led him to decide to step down.
We mistakenly identified Jarosław Kaczyński as Poland’s justice minister. He is the chairman of the rightwing Law and Justice party. “Now a bloc of eastern countries are [sic] standing up to Brussels”, In Focus, 3 July, page 26).
Coutances is not a “little Breton town”, but a small cathedral city, the regional capital of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy (Tour de France, Sport, last week, page 13).
Usage corner: “… the enormity of her achievement…” (“22 at last: Williams beats Kerber to hit her target”, Sport, last week, page 2). We meant magnitude.
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