• In quoting comments about immigrants made by the Spectator columnist Douglas Murray during a video podcast with the former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson, an opinion piece mistakenly said his remarks related to the recent riots across parts of the UK. In fact Murray was speaking last year (“The roots of this unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances”, 11 August, p44). This error was in our print edition only.
• A profile of Peter Denton, the chief executive of Homes England, the government’s housing delivery body, said that “in the past five years Homes England has spent nearly £24bn to help start 207,000 new homes”. To clarify: that figure is not just for starting these homes, but for building them, unlocking housing capacity and helping people into home ownership (11 August, p54).
• Sunderland football club’s average attendance for the 2023-4 season was 41,028, not 34,000 (“Sunderland’s anti-riot stance shows how clubs and cities are proudly united”, 11 August, Sport, p28).
• Winston Churchill first studied painting in the 1920s rather than the 1930s as an article said (“How gift of Monet painting brightened demoralised Churchill’s postwar years”, 11 August, p18). And it was during the first world war, not second, that painting brought him comfort. Also, the artist John Singer Sargent made a charcoal drawing of Churchill’s mother, Lady Spencer-Churchill, but he did not “paint” her.
Other recently amended articles include:
Actors rebel over fossil fuel funding at Old Vic
Bokman, Bristol: ‘Laser-like focus’ – restaurant review
Postcards from Paris: iconic scenes at the Olympic Games
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