• We referred to Labour potentially “winning its first byelection victory since 2012” (Tory MP convicted of sexually molesting boy, 15, fails to keep his promise to resign, 24 April, p7). The party has held a number of seats at byelections in the past decade; we meant this would be its first victory in taking a seat from another party.
• An article (Minister plans review of impact of gender dysphoria treatment, 24 April, p9) said the interim Cass report on NHS gender identity services had found that “some staff” felt under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach to children concerned about their gender. To clarify, that finding related to “primary and secondary care staff”, not those at the Gender Identity Development Service, the specialist provider for England and Wales run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
• The memorial service for the Observer columnist Katharine Whitehorn took place on 19 April, not 18 April, as an article suggested in referring to “last Monday” (Notebook, 24 April, p42). And the first name of Rev Dr Ifode-Blease, who led the service, is Mariama, not Mariam.
• Germany’s economics minister is Robert Habeck, not “Halbeck” (A divided France and a Germany unsure of its identity threaten Europe’s future, 24 April, p44).
• The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have strict phyto-sanitary controls for their plants, not “photo-sanitary” controls (The new gold rush, 17 April, Magazine, p13).
Other recently amended articles include:
Surviving the split: Sinn Féin’s long road to independence from the IRA
Britain’s Tesla hopes for big things from ‘microfactories’
Nine people found from tour boat that went missing in rough waters off Japan
Streaming: The Souvenir Part II, Belfast and the best screen memoirs
Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus and cannellini beans, and salmon with tomato
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