• A review of Zoe Rahman’s album Colour of Sound mistakenly referred to the pianist’s Bengali heritage as Punjabi (New Review, 9 July, p33).
• An article about myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) research said that in the UK “only £10m in annual government funding is doled out for the study of ME/CFS”. This was the figure spent by the UK government between 2007 and 2016, not an annual sum (Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?, 9 July, New Review, p18).
• We said 27,546 staff “quit the NHS” in 2022 for reasons of work-life balance; in fact that figure in the NHS data represents staff “leaving/moving” for this reason, so may include those who took up other roles in the health service (Revealed: a record 170,000 staff leave NHS in England as stress and workload take toll, 2 July, p4).
• Airbus is not an investor in the German company Volocopter as an article incorrectly stated (Your electric flying taxi may be just around the corner, 25 June, p51).
• Other recently amended articles include:
Hundreds gather in Paris to honour black man who died in police custody
I helped to privatise England’s water firms. But it’s government inaction that wrecked them
Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth
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