A panel headed “Lockdown flouters” (24 May, page 7) referred to criticism by South Wales police of Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, after he posted a picture of himself outside his parents’ home on his father’s birthday on 28 March. Mr Kinnock has asked us to clarify that he did not “travel to London” from south Wales for the occasion, as the piece stated; he says he completed critical constituency work on 26 March and relocated that day to his London home to provide support to his vulnerable parents throughout lockdown. His car journey on 28 March was therefore 4.5 miles from his London home to his parents’ house, and involved delivery of essential supplies.
A newspaper headline that asked “Did Michel Barnier infect Boris Johnson?” appeared in the Mail on Sunday, not the Daily Mail, as stated in a column last week (“David Hockney may be a great painter but don’t listen to him on matters of health”, page 43)
An article last week that referred to autoimmune diseases being more common in women gave osteoarthritis as one example. Although this condition is more likely to affect women, it is not an autoimmune disease; “rheumatoid arthritis” would have been correct (“Why does medicine treat women like men?”, Magazine, page 11).
Other recently amended articles include:
Can Iraq’s new PM, and the region, escape Suleimani’s long shadow?
The science of making sourdough bread
How players gave Inbetweeners writers the inside stories for football sitcom
Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon puts America back in the space race
Poll reveals half of parents unconvinced that school is safe for their children’s return
After the Covid-19 crisis, will we get a greener world?
Setting the scene: a home with a dramatic flourish
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