• The cover of this week’s pre-printed New Review section shows a detail of a painting that we understood to be by Carel Fabritius. However, our art critic Laura Cumming, who addresses the work of the Dutch artist in an extract from her new memoir published inside the section, has explained to us that the provenance of the painting is generally disputed and she believes it is neither of or by him.
• Charlotte Owen, the 29-year-old former assistant to Boris Johnson who was nominated for a seat in the House of Lords in the former PM’s resignation honours list, will become the youngest ever life peer, not “the youngest ever person to enter the second chamber”; there have been younger hereditary peers (How Johnson’s downfall exposed his bogus Brexit promises on sovereignty, 18 June, p4).
• The subheading of a TV review mistakenly named Martin Sheen as starring in the new Jack Thorne-penned drama Best Interests; as the article and a picture caption made clear, the actor in question is Michael Sheen (A good time for reflection, 18 June, the New Review, p36).
• Derrick Somerset Macnutt, who under the pseudonym Ximenes was an early setter of the Observer’s Everyman crossword, was incorrectly named “Colin Macnutt” in an article marking publication of the 4,000th puzzle (The joy of crosswords, 18 June, p3).
• The second Lagrange point, which is the destination of the European space probe Euclid, is located 1.5 million km from Earth, not 150 million km (Euclid space telescope mission aims to reveal ‘dark universe’, 18 June, p31).
• Other recently amended articles include:
Water companies feel the heat as commercial bans loom in dry summer
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