• A Comment article (Duncan Smith’s delusional world of welfare reform, 12 August, page 26) said that there is a “nasty gift of 3.6 million assessments for his successor” in relation to the numbers of people currently on disability living allowance being transferred to the personal independence payment (PIP). In fact the figure is 1.75m. In addition the article stated that £130m had been written off “in failed IT”. To clarify: the Department for Work and Pensions has written off £41.1m in assets it will never use and spent “a further £91m on assets that will support only a limited service for five years with clear consequences of public value”, according to the all-party work and pensions select committee.

• A front-page article about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange incorrectly described him as an anti-privacy campaigner; anti-secrecy campaigner that should have been. The article also referred to Ecuador as a central American country, when it should have said Latin American (Ecuador says Britain ‘not interested’ in plight of Assange, 18 August, page 1).

• Grisly homophone corner: “You can bear your soul to Alice and she’s very good at getting you back on the straight and narrow” (Cook thanks his wife for helping to steer England back on course, 18 August, page 1, Sport).

• A headline – Glasgow’s last shipyard Ferguson Shipbuilders set to close – was wrong. The shipyard is at Port Glasgow, further down the Clyde. It is, however, Scotland’s last commercial shipyard (15 August, theguardian.com).