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US elections | William Armstrong

An opinion column, in looking at what it takes to win US elections and the impact of “win-at-all-costs” logic, made reference to the 2000 presidential election when 2020 was meant (What’s the point of Joe Biden if he isn’t a winner?, 2 July, G2, p3).

The engineer and inventor William Armstrong made his speech about coal being “used wastefully and extravagantly in all its applications” in 1863, not 1883 (Weatherwatch, 27 June, p34).

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