“Pupils’ stand for free speech is a lesson to us all” (Opinion, last week, page 21) included Germaine Greer and Peter Tatchell among those who had been banned from speaking engagements. While a petition was raised calling for Greer to be banned from speaking at Cardiff University, the event went ahead and Tatchell’s appearance at Canterbury Christ Church University was not banned but boycotted by an invited panel member.
Some marks out of 10 in the England rugby player ratings (Sport, last week, page 3) were transposed. Correctly: Hartley 6, Cole 4, Robshaw 8, Wood 8.
Contrary to “Hunt for family legacy unearths top firm’s link to Nazi camps” (News, last week, page 26), Germany’s highest civilian honour awarded to Kurt Hamann, once head of Victoria Insurance, has not been rescinded, nor has a fellowship named after him at Mannheim University.
Our guide to Budapest placed the Múzeum restaurant “around the corner from the Hungarian National Gallery” but (and the name of the restaurant is a pretty big clue) we meant the National Museum (“Full of festive cheer”, Travel, Magazine, last week, page 90).
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