• An article and caption to an accompanying photograph described Jeremy Burnett Rae, an attendee at the Conservative party conference, as a “former chair of the Tory Reform Group”; in fact, he was chair of the Oxford University branch of Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism, a group that evolved in the 1970s into the TRG, but he has never been a member of the latter. We also misnamed the Royal Ocean Racing Club, to which Burnett Rae belongs, as the “Royal Ocean Sailing Club” (Birmingham Blues: fear and loathing at the Tory party conference, 9 October, New Review, p11).
• An opinion piece referred to the government “capping energy bills at £2,500 per household this winter”. The energy price cap is a limit on the unit cost of electricity and gas, not on overall bills; the £2,500-a-year figure relates to the average amount that a typical household will pay (We are the country taking the energy crisis least seriously. Even Shell’s boss is baffled, 9 October, p49).
• In referring to laws restricting workers’ rights that have been introduced since 2010, an article mentioned employment tribunal fees, but it should also have noted that these were scrapped in 2017 (Libertarians will let you live life as you wish – as long as you’re rich and powerful, 9 October, p58).
• We gave the wrong membership rate for the community co-working site Othership: prices start at £25 a year, not £25 a month (Goodbye WFH, hello WFP (that’s working from pub) this winter, 9 October, p11).
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Putin dealt bitter blow as blast cripples key bridge to Crimea
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