Sun 31 Jan 2021 01.00 EST
An article (“Don’t blame public for deaths, say ICU doctors”, 24 January, page 9) reported that Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, had said NHS personnel were right to criticise people for breaking lockdown rules. As the quote from him made clear, he actually said: “Expressing these views may or may not be right but they are entirely understandable.” We also styled him as Dr Goddard; he is a professor.
It is Discovery, not Liberty Global, that is backing the TV channel GB News (“Star hosts gear up as Britain braces for partisan TV news”, 24 January, page 40). The same piece said that the Dubai-based Legatum Group “runs” a thinktank; in fact, while it established and funds the Legatum Institute, the latter is a charity with its own independent management team.