2015
The dreadful cold blooded shooting of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in Paris is inexplicable to the liberal mind. This hand-wringing cartoon doesn't help but does reflect how it felt at the time. 
Trying to understand why people simply want to kill "unbelievers" is not easy. It seems to me that whatever their thoughts, the killers had formed a mangled, distorted idea of their religion. 
The election debates on TV coincide with the final of BBC's The Voice. The cacophony of seven windbags all talking in platitudes was enough to make anyone scream. 
In desperation to gain any traction in the election, Ed Miliband tries to 'get real' so he allows an interview with Russell Brand. It doesn't go that well. Brand does not endorse Ed. I wonder what the campaign team thought. 
Election day looms and it looks completely unpredictable. There is an unseemly last minute dash for votes. The electorate doesn't seem to be engaged. 
Last minute polls predicting a hung parliament are completely wrong. The country delivered a triumphant Cameron into no 10, wiping out the Lib Dems and gifting Scotland to the SNP. Labour performs poorly. It makes you wonder if polls are a complete waste 
Cameron urges Chilcot to "get on with it" and publish the Iraq Inquiry, now six years into its preparation. There is politics afoot here, of course. Those who wish to delay its publication are likely to be Blair and his cadre - so Cameron can occupy the m
