While authorities in the United States are investigating why some British customers of the Uber minicab smartphone app have been charged for journeys they have not made – at Uber’s invitation – the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not among them, contrary to the headline and first paragraph of our story “FBI investigates as ‘phantom’ cab rides appear on hacked British Uber accounts” (News, last week, page 11).
An article headlined “How Lumley charmed ‘dear Boris’ to back her garden bridge dream” (News, last week, page 16) failed to acknowledge that an exchange of correspondence between Joanna Lumley and London mayor Boris Johnson, and internal Transport for London documents concerning the bidding process for the proposed London garden bridge design, were obtained by the Architects’ Journal through freedom of information requests.
Skilled though he is, the oboist Nicholas Daniel does not play “almost 40 minutes of continuous solo” in his recent recording of Vaughan Williams’s oboe concerto for Harmonia Mundi: the piece lasts barely 20 minutes. (Classical CD reviews, last week, New Review, page 33).
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