For the record

In " Desmond Tutu leads fight to halt anti-gay terror sweeping the continent " (Seven days), we repeated reports in other media that Kenyan police had raided a gay wedding and arrested guests. However, Human Rights Watch points out that a mob of vigilantes had descended on a house in Mtwapa in response to unsubstantiated claims of a gay wedding and that police took two men into custody in an attempt to protect them from violence. They were later released without charge. " Sarkozy sparks party revolt as voters lose confidence in him " (News), said that President Sarkozy's party has held only one of France's 26 regions in the recent second round of regional elections. Sarkozy's party has indeed held only one of France's 22 metropolitan regions (Alsace). It has, however, also held two of the four overseas regions (La Réunion and Guyane). The verdict by British novelists on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's years in government gave the date for the bursting of the economic bubble as October 1998. We meant 2008 (" May 1997, when things could only get better. What became of our dreams ?", Review). Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers' Editor, the Observer , Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, tel 0203 353 4656 or email [email protected]