• The film director Halina Reijn is Dutch, not Norwegian as an article said (“How Nicole Kidman conquered the world... then kept on going”, 8 September, p36). The same piece referred to Kidman having won Oscars and Baftas; to clarify, she has won one of each of these awards.
• Elizabeth Alker, not Maxine Peake, is the presenter of season 2 of the podcast Transmissions: the Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order; Peake presented season 1 (“From Westminster to New Order”, 8 September, New Review, p37).
• Lady Elish Angiolini, who is a candidate for the chancellorship of the University of Oxford, was Scotland’s first female solicitor general and female lord advocate, but she was not its first female procurator fiscal as an article said (“Is pro-Taliban Imran Khan really the best choice as Oxford’s next chancellor?”, 1 September, p45).
• We misnamed Milly Pickles, who presented coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympics, as “Molly” (“C4 ups its Games with viewers“, 8 September, p20).
• Michelle Obama is 60, not 62, and Keir Starmer is 62, not 61 (“Big birthday soon? You’re in great company”, 8 September, Magazine, p17).
• Everton won the FA Cup once in the decade up to 1992, not twice (“Chaos club Everton reap the whirlwind of Premier League’s financial revolution”, 8 September, Sport, p9).
Other recently amended articles include:
Put levy on smartphones to help creatives survive AI threat, top UK artists tell Labour
Off to university? Here’s where to find the UK’s best student discounts
Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – the leader who made history for all the wrong reasons
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