Our editorial headlined “Let more light in to expose inequality” (Comment, last week, page 28), said: “In Theresa May, we have our second female prime minister. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have female leaders.” Scotland and Northern Ireland, yes. In Wales, Leanne Wood is leader of Plaid Cymru – but Carwyn Jones, leader of Welsh Labour, is first minister.
Confusion crept into a piece about comedy at the Edinburgh festival fringe when it said Alexei Sayle’s show Thatcher Stole My Trousers was a follow-up to his childhood reminiscences, Stalin Ate My Homework. Both are titles of books by Sayle, not titles of his shows. His Edinburgh appearance this year is simply entitled Alexei Sayle (“The old ones are still the best: blasts from comedy’s punk past return to Edinburgh”, News, last week, page 11).
Dash it all, we inadvertently knighted Roderick Spode last week (“A cold reactionary lies behind the Rees-Mogg act”, Comment, page 31). Wodehouse devotees will know he was plain Roderick Spode until his uncle died, when he became the Earl of Sidcup or, as Bertie preferred, “Lord Spodecup”.
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