• Referring to a comment made by Emmanuel Macron in June 2022 about the war in Ukraine, an article (Welcome to the New World Disorder, 16 April, p33) recalled the French president insisting Vladimir Putin must not be humiliated. In fact, Macron said “Russia” must not be humiliated.
• In Trained medics who could ease NHS crisis stuck in asylum limbo (9 April, p6), we spoke to Hashem Salim, a Palestinian doctor working in the UK, whose wife, also a doctor, was in Egypt awaiting permission to join him. Her name is Sawa (not “Sala”) Awad.
• An article about the National Trust garden at Hidcote (Walking in beauty, 16 April, Magazine, p32) referred to its creator Lawrence Johnston buying the estate in 1907; to clarify, he bought it on behalf of his mother. And a reference to Hidcote being “his only garden” was intended to mean his only garden “in Britain”.
• Last week’s May I have a word? column on “local authority lingo” (p47) featured an example of management-speak submitted by reader Will O’Neill, whom we misnamed as Will Griffiths.
• Walsall is not in Birmingham; it is a separate town in the West Midlands (Supermarket sweep, 16 April, Food Monthly, p30).
• We misspelt Osmotherley, a village in North Yorkshire, as “Osthmorley” in our map accompanying a story about how running helped a writer through her grief (Running for her life, 2 April, New Review, p8).
• Other recently amended articles include:
Coronation’s Big Help Out volunteering project at risk of lack of participants
Lock up your bunnies: Fatal Attraction is back, and still stuck in the 80s
Models, muses and a rich cat: new film spotlights unusual life of Karl Lagerfeld
• Write to the Readers’ Editor, the Observer, York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk, tel 020 3353 4736
