An ambiguous paragraph in a piece on a London council’s housing regeneration scheme may have given the impression that the opposition in Haringey’s council chamber is made up of Green and Socialist Workers party activists, anarchists and Liberal Democrats. To be clear: Labour has 49 councillors on the council; eight Liberal Democrat councillors form the opposition (“Regeneration – or excluding the poor? Labour divides in bitter housing battle”, Viewpoint, page 30).
A piece on digital disruption (“Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance”, Comment, last week, page 33), said that the broadcaster RT, formerly known as Russia Today, “was banned last week from Twitter”. The ban extends only to its advertising, which Twitter announced it was excluding following its investigations and the US intelligence community’s conclusion that RT attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government.
Usage corner: “… risking plenty in order to affect change …”: affect (alter); effect (bring about). (First paragraph, “A year on from Trump’s pussy grab, nothing has changed”, Magazine, last week, page 3).
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