Corrections

Reporting a mistake

Email , telling us which article and which passage, and if possible the source that contradicts it.

What we do

1. We check the report against the sources, starting with the official texts and the original data.
2. If the mistake is confirmed, we correct it wherever it appears: the introduction, the ‘At a glance’ box, the body of the article, the FAQs, and every edition of the magazine.
3. We note it at the end of the article: ‘Corrected [date]: what has changed’. A simple typo is corrected without a note; a factual error never is.

Our priorities

Mistakes affecting safety or regulations come first: they are checked and, if need be, corrected as quickly as possible. Other reports are dealt with in the order they arrive. A correction is carried over to every edition of the magazine in which the mistake appears, and to any other article that repeated the same information.

Corrections stay on the record

A factual error is never erased without trace: the correction note stays at the bottom of the article, even after a major update. Corrections are decided by the editorial team, under the responsibility of the director of publication, once the sources have been checked. If we do not act on a report, we explain why to the person who sent it, citing the sources that lead us to a different conclusion. We would rather own up to a mistake than let it spread.

Corrected, updated, checked: three different dates

‘Corrected’ marks a mistake that has been put right. ‘Updated’ marks a substantial revision of the article. ‘Checked’ means its sources have been gone through again and nothing needed changing. How we work is set out in full in our method.

Updated 26 October 2026