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On Saturday night, the Observer published a story in print and online on the Guardian website, headlined "Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America". It dealt with the operational relationship between EU member states and the National Security Agency (NSA), suggesting that the US had signed a series of agreements stretching back decades, which allowed it to harvest surveillance data in a number of European countries, in addition to the UK. The documentary evidence for the story, which was based on a number of sources, was sound, but it was wrong to connect Wayne Madsen with this story in any way. For this reason, the original story was removed from the website, and the Observer splash was replaced. A rewritten version of the story was later published on the website.On Saturday night, the Observer published a story in print and online on the Guardian website, headlined "Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America". It dealt with the operational relationship between EU member states and the National Security Agency (NSA), suggesting that the US had signed a series of agreements stretching back decades, which allowed it to harvest surveillance data in a number of European countries, in addition to the UK. The documentary evidence for the story, which was based on a number of sources, was sound, but it was wrong to connect Wayne Madsen with this story in any way. For this reason, the original story was removed from the website, and the Observer splash was replaced. A rewritten version of the story was later published on the website.
Graça Machel, "So much more than a first lady" (Profile, last week, page 28) referred to the death of her first husband, Samora Machel, in 1996. He was killed in a plane crash 10 years earlier, in 1986.Graça Machel, "So much more than a first lady" (Profile, last week, page 28) referred to the death of her first husband, Samora Machel, in 1996. He was killed in a plane crash 10 years earlier, in 1986.
An article on the TV world where women play the dominant role referred to Linda Robson Birds of a Feather as Laura Robson, and to Pauline McLynn from Father Ted as Pauline Glynn ("They're all birds of a feather: why female friendship is the secret to sitcom success", In Focus, last week, page 27).An article on the TV world where women play the dominant role referred to Linda Robson Birds of a Feather as Laura Robson, and to Pauline McLynn from Father Ted as Pauline Glynn ("They're all birds of a feather: why female friendship is the secret to sitcom success", In Focus, last week, page 27).
The Q&A section that appeared with an extract from Stephen Emmott's book, Ten Billion, referred to Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century clergyman and pioneering population pundit. He was, and is, more usually known as Thomas Robert Malthus ("Life on Earth faces the biggest crisis in human history. And we're ignoring it", New Review, last week, page 8).The Q&A section that appeared with an extract from Stephen Emmott's book, Ten Billion, referred to Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century clergyman and pioneering population pundit. He was, and is, more usually known as Thomas Robert Malthus ("Life on Earth faces the biggest crisis in human history. And we're ignoring it", New Review, last week, page 8).
Sticklers' corner: "Osborne's cruel language about the poor is driven by low politics" (Comment, last week, page 32) posited that according to the government, newly unemployed people's first instinct is to be supported by a state only too ready to indulge their mendacity (Collins: mendacity – the tendency to be untruthful). That should have been mendicity or mendicancy. (Collins: from Latin mendicare: to beg, from mendicus beggar, from mendus flaw).Sticklers' corner: "Osborne's cruel language about the poor is driven by low politics" (Comment, last week, page 32) posited that according to the government, newly unemployed people's first instinct is to be supported by a state only too ready to indulge their mendacity (Collins: mendacity – the tendency to be untruthful). That should have been mendicity or mendicancy. (Collins: from Latin mendicare: to beg, from mendicus beggar, from mendus flaw).
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