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Errors & Omissions: Disgusted of Downing Street makes a schoolboy error
You almost had to feel sorry for Gordon Brown this week, frozen into silence by the question whether he approved of the decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
Inside Corrections
Errors & Omissions: Oscar Wilde died too young to be an eminent Edwardian
Saturday, 22 August 2009
"In May 1897," said a column published last Saturday, "Oscar Wilde composed a letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle on the subject of child prisoners ... . If it was an absurdity to enlightened Edwardians, it is undeniably tragic now."
Art Capital Group
Friday, 21 August 2009
In our article, “Annie get your lawyer: Leibovitz sued over $24m loan” (1 August 2009) we quoted an anonymous source who said that Art Capital Group were ‘pretty scary guys, they are predatory lenders’. The article also included a statement from Annie Leibovitz’s publicist that the lawsuit brought by Art Capital Group is part of its continued harassment and attention-getting efforts. We accept that the allegations are false and apologise to Art Capital Group.'
Errors & Omissions: The spirit of PC Plod finds its way into a news report
Saturday, 15 August 2009
This sentence comes from Thursday's news story about the great Mayfair jewel robbery. It goes badly wrong halfway through: "It is believed that police in the current investigation have not ruled out the possibility that the same gang has struck again, but think it is unlikely due to the fact that the suspected culprits in the latest raid had London accents."
Maitalal Gurung
Thursday, 13 August 2009
The picture which illustrated our article, "Gurkha's 40-year battle to clear name goes to the High Court" ( 18 July 2009) about Maitalal Gurung, was not a picture of Maitalal Gurung, as captioned, but of Lalit Bahandur Gurung. We apologise for the mix-up.
Errors & Omissions: Once you start throwing around capitals, you just can't stop
Saturday, 8 August 2009
The annoying habit of putting a capital T on the word "the" reached a new level of absurdity in a news story, published on Thursday, about the death of Harry Patch, the last surviving British veteran of the First World War. "Radiohead's frontman Thom Yorke yesterday announced the band was releasing a tribute song to the man dubbed The Last Tommy."
Dominic Lawson
Sunday, 2 August 2009
In last week’s Feral Beast, in the context of an item about a British presenter on Iran’s Press TV, Yvonne Ridley, we referred to a remark by her which implied that Dominic Lawson had been an MI6 agent. Mr Lawson, now a columnist on our sister paper, the Independent, has pointed out that this false allegation, originally made in 1999 by someone else, was denied not only by him but also by the then Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook. Apologies to Dominic.
Errors & Omissions: It takes a poet to uncover the true meaning of a word
Saturday, 1 August 2009
There is a wonderful poem by Robert Graves called "The Naked and the Nude", in which he argues that these two terms are very far from synonymous, whatever the lexicographers might say. For Graves, put simply, nakedness implies a degree of innocence that is not present in nudity. Both words have value judgements attached to them.
Errors & Omissions: Can't have measures without a package, apparently
Saturday, 25 July 2009
Politics and business are the two subjects most prone to metaphors, and so require care to avoid a clash of mental pictures.
Errors & Omissions: From icon to iconoclast in just a few short centuries
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Is it possible to be both an icon and an iconoclast? Well, if anybody can have it both ways it is probably the singer Grace Jones.
Errors & Omissions: It's understandably easy to confuse horses and royalty
Saturday, 11 July 2009
A disastrous headline appeared on a business page on Monday: "CBI to unveil plans to reign in jobless total."
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