“‘We don’t feel at home any more, and it’s their fault’: the rise of Sweden’s far right” (News, last week, page 29) said a theme of Sweden Democrats’ leader Jimmie Åkesson’s election speech last August was that Islam was “the Nazism and communism of our time”. He actually used the word Islamism (ie the extreme philosophies shared by al-Qaida and Isis) and not Islam.
Contrary to a caption to pictures of Huddersfield’s Chris Powell and Carlisle’s Keith Curle neither team is in the Premier League (“Why are there so few black football managers?”, Magazine, last week, page 18). The article said there were just two black or minority ethnic (BME) football managers currently working at the 92 clubs in the Premier League and Football League. The appointments of Leyton Orient’s Fabio Liverani and Burton Albion’s Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, taking the total to four came after the article was researched.
Spirited readers point out that while Frank Sinatra was called “the bourbon baritone” after his fondness for Jack Daniel’s, the drink does not claim to be a bourbon but a Tennessee whiskey (“‘Stodgy’ scotch whisky gets a hangover as American bourbon wins young drinkers”, News, last week, page 19).
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