An article (“First public exams for three years ... and Covid is still playing havoc”, 17 April, p19) said exams would return to schools from 16 May. To clarify: this date applies to GCSE and A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, some pupils begin their Nationals and Highers this week.
In a list of prime ministerial resignations in Britain since 1937, Neville Chamberlain should have appeared among those who departed after losing the support of parliamentary colleagues; and we should have said that Harold Macmillan left on health grounds (“Just what exactly is keeping Boris Johnson in power?” 17 April, p43).
An article (“Francis Bacon bequest will be sent to France in snub to Tate gallery”, 17 April, p22) referred to Bacon’s work going to “the French National Archives in the Centre Pompidou Paris”. The French National Archives and the Centre Pompidou Paris are two separate organisations; we meant the archives of the latter.
We described the actor Olivia Colman as a Cambridge graduate. She began studies for a teaching degree at the university’s Homerton College but left the course and later graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (“Nicola Walker: at the very top of her game, with her feet firmly on the ground”, 17 April, p36).
An interview with the film director Robert Eggers said that he and his wife, Alexandra Shaker, moved to Dublin for the production of The Northman. In fact they moved to Belfast (“ ‘I’m shocked I made such a macho movie’ ”, 10 April, New Review, p18).
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