• An opinion piece said the Bank of England would be infuriated by a potential stamp duty rise, when a cut was meant (It’s a top Tory ploy. Why hasn’t Sunak cut stamp duty?, 5 June, p55).
• An article said that a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, “registers her reign as queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1587”; Mary lived until 1587 but was forced to abdicate in 1567 (Power, prestige and pearls on show in a rare gathering of our islands’ queens, 5 June, p4).
• In a column about the Parthenon marbles, references to Byron’s The Curse of Minerva had the eponymous goddess mistakenly turned into “Medusa” on second mention (Why shouldn’t the Greeks have their marbles back? We proved we lost ours long ago, 29 May, p43).
