“May must not falter in tackling domestic violence” (Opinion, last week, page 19) said “home secretary Lynne Truss” had announced changes to court procedures for victims of violence. Lynne Truss is an author and broadcaster; it was Liz Truss, the justice secretary, who made the announcement.
Our piece on Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, contained some editing errors. The headline “Political correctness? ‘It’s gone mad … and it ushered in the populist wave’ ” put quote marks around words he did not say in the interview. When discussing alleged antisemitism within Labour, he referred to the use of the term “Zio” [a shorthand for Ziocon, a pejorative abbreviation of Zionist neoconservative]. This was mistakenly changed in subediting to Zion, a synonym for Jerusalem. An accompanying panel said he was the seventh child of seven children. In fact he’s the 10th child of 10 children. (Interview, last week, page 29).
Last week’s Speedy crossword No. 1,116 (page 49) gave a 10-letter clue for an 11-letter anagram answer. The clue should have been “idea strands”.
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