2008-03-20

webofevil: (Default)
2008-03-20 11:23 am

Misprints of mine that I caught before they actually got published #3,007

Lord Adonis is talking about criminal record checks:
Lord Adonis: In the data I have for 2007-08, the four-week target has been mad in 95.2 per cent of cases. (“made”)
NB - I have been asked to point out that this was actually the true quote and I changed it only after I had been leant on by teh Guvmunt.
webofevil: (unic)
2008-03-20 12:58 pm
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Simon Heffer is an innocent victim of a misunderstanding and a champion of the people

SIMON HEFFER IS AN INNOCENT VICTIM OF A MISUNDERSTANDING AND A CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE

In yesterday’s post, someone felt the need to anonymously fire a warning shot across my bows by reminding me that the law says you can libel someone even by telling the truth about them. In the light of this, it has become clear to me that when respected historian, editor and society beauty Simon Heffer [right] repeated the current Conservative canard that Hansard changed its copy because it was leant on by the government, he did not do so in the knowledge that the allegation was false. His part in this was entirely unwitting.

What do readers think could have been the reason for his uncharacteristic lapse in judgment in accidentally printing an untruth?

[Poll #1157413]