• A Comment article about student protest described Senate House in London as the setting for the Ministry of Truth in the Michael Radford film of George Orwell's 1984. That is not the case, but it was the inspiration for Orwell's description of the ministry in his novel. An exterior shot of Senate House is used in the film as the residence of one of the main characters, O'Brien ('It taught us how to fight', 11 December, page 34).

• A graphic that purported to show some of the key figures behind education policies connected Anastasia De Waal, head of family and education policy at the thinktank Civitas, to the education secretary Michael Gove. De Waal, a Labour party member, is not an adviser to Gove as the illustration might have suggested (Who has all the big ideas?, 3 December, page 40).

• An article (Setback for SFO as Labour donor trial is abandoned, 11 December, page 27) suggested that Victor Dahdaleh was a donor to the Labour party. While he has funded Labour-supporting thinktanks, he has not donated to the party itself.

• The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, whose 67th birthday was noted on 9 December (Birthdays, page 31) is no longer bishop of Blackburn. He retired at the end of October 2012; his successor is the Rt Rev Julian Henderson.

• Operation Blessing – An Apology: In an article entitled "Mission Congo: how Pat Robertson raised millions on the back of a non-existent aid project" we claimed that Pat Robertson ran an almost non-existent aid effort in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Operation Blessing actually sent six medical relief teams to Zaire, between July and December 1994, and arranged for 66,000lb of medicines and supplies to arrive in Goma on an aircraft it chartered from Amsterdam. In addition, the article referred to a report by the Virginia Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) without making clear that there was a further report by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) which found no evidence of wrongdoing by Operation Blessing or Pat Robertson and no evidence of intent to defraud. Operation Blessing has asked us to make clear that the report was signed off by four individuals at the AGO, none of whom received any donation from Pat Robertson or Operation Blessing. The article claimed a school and farm set up by Operation Blessing in Dumi had failed. We have been informed that the school is thriving and the farm remains operational to this day. We are happy to clarify the position and apologise to Operation Blessing. We have agreed to make a contribution to Operation Blessing to be used in its relief efforts for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines.

• McDonald Bailey's obituary was amended because the original said McDonald Bailey came fourth in the 1948 Olympics 100m final. This has been corrected to say sixth.

• Don't hate the woman behind the 'world's worst selfie' was amended because "selfie" is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year, not the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year as the original said.