Apologies to readers who searched the paper in vain last week for a letter from more than 30 Labour MPs, peers, MEPs and trade unionists calling on the Labour party to commit to staying in the single market and customs union, as trailed in our front-page story “Make Labour the pro-single market party, Corbyn told”. The letter appeared only on our website. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/2xzDiXy
The Confederation of British Industry wants Britain to stay in the European Union’s single market during a Brexit transition period, not “for good”, as we maintained in “May’s ‘renaissance’ speech – a political masterpiece, or just painting over the cracks?” (In Focus, last week, page 24).
A panel headlined “The science of… mineral water” (New Review, last week, page 21) said the European Food Safety Authority recommends drinking 1.6 to 2 litres of water a day. It actually recommends that we ingest this total through “drinking water, beverages of all kind and from food moisture” – not quite the same as glugging down two straight litres a day.
There were several Marx Brothers, but Karl was not among them (Caption, Magazine, last week, page 56).
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