Ouch!

Anthony Barnett (London, OK):  Apologies for hardly writing in OK, I have been, er, rather busy with the Convention. But a generous spread about "The New Freedom Fighters" that I have just seen in the Observer this morning has at least three errors one of which is really important and should be corrected asap even though it is an error of ommission. the story consists of a group photo put togther in photoshop and a historical perspective by Robert McCrumb. I am described as the Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy, which post I handed over to Tony Curzon Price two years ago. He's doing a great job and I am doing all I can a)to support him and b)to tell everyone, so it is very irritating. Second, there is an error I'm responsible for as I said in passing how Henry Porter came up to me at Anthony Sampson's funeral and said "we must talk". In fact it was at his memorial service in St Martin's in the Fields and not at Sampson's "graveside". Never mind, Sampson was a stickler for facts but would have enjoyed that mistake. The most important thing, however, is that it turns out that nine of us were called in to be pictured and this did not include Phil Booth of NO2ID without whom.... the picture is completely incorrect.