Correction and clarification

In last Sunday's Public Affairs, 'Deception, dons and underdevelopment', an error was published in the following sentence: "Now that the very leadership which we were led to believe was committed to breaking the links to these garrisons has instead elevated itself to a position of national importance, we seem to be perched on the precipice of social and economic disorder."

The word 'itself' should have been 'them'.

The error is regretted.