In an interview with Annie Nightingale (“‘If I can play what I like and say what I like, that’s the dream’”, New Review, 30 August, page 9) we incorrectly said that in her new book, Hey Hi Hello, Nightingale referred to having once admitted to taking acid. In fact, she was recounting how John Lennon told her he made this admission when asked about taking the drug.
An appreciation of Chadwick Boseman referred to the actor’s role as Thurgood Marshall, “the first African-American supreme court justice of the United States, appointed to the bench by JFK”. It was Lyndon B Johnson who appointed Marshall to the US supreme court; John F Kennedy appointed Marshall to the US court of appeals (“Life did imitate art: energetic, idealistic, he was a prince of cinema”, 30 August, page 13).
Germany has the fifth highest population of refugees in the world, not the second highest, as an article stated (“The verdict on Merkel’s great migrant gamble”, 30 August, page 28). The same piece said the Merkel government had added Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to its list of countries considered safe; in fact this proposal was later rejected by the Bundesrat.
An article (“Ex-Proms chief hits out at ‘kneejerk’ BBC row”, 30 August, page 12) was wrong to refer to Sir Nicholas Kenyon as a current member of the board of English National Opera.
The byline of an article (“Ethiopia falls into cycle of violence – one year after leader’s peace prize win”, 30 August, page 26) was missing one of the writers, Zecharias Zelalem.
Other recently amended articles include:
Bletchley Park: third of staff face redundancy because of coronavirus
Reborn shipyard pins hopes for growth on post-Brexit boom
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk review – the whole world up your sleeve
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