Corrections
When we get something wrong, we say so — here, and in a note appended to the original article. This page is permanent.
Our policy
We distinguish between three kinds of changes to a published article:
- •Corrections. A factual error — a wrong number, a misspelled name, a misattributed quote, an incorrect date. The article gets a correction note dated and describing what was changed, and the correction is logged on this page.
- •Updates. The story has materially developed since publication — a new ruling, a new statement, a new data point. We add an "Update" block dated and labelled, rather than rewriting the original copy.
- •Silent edits. Reserved for typos, broken links, and formatting fixes. Anything that affects meaning is treated as a correction or an update, never as a silent edit.
How to request a correction
If you spot an error in any of our coverage, write to [email protected] with three things:
- The article URL.
- The paragraph or sentence containing the error, copy-pasted.
- What the correct information is, and where you saw it (a link to a primary source helps us verify quickly).
We respond within 48 hours. If the error is confirmed, the article is updated and the correction logged below — usually within the same day.
Recent corrections
We have not issued any corrections in the past 90 days. When we do, they will be listed here with the article title, the date corrected, and a one-line description of what was changed.
Why we publish this page
A publication that doesn't correct mistakes in public is less trustworthy than one that does, not more. The cost of admitting an error is small; the cost of pretending it didn't happen is the slow erosion of the only thing a news organisation actually has to sell. So we'd rather have a corrections page that occasionally fills up than a website that pretends to be infallible.