Fighting their first election, the Liberal Democrats did much to give themselves a politically vital unique selling point apart from the issue of proportional representation - a marginal concern to most voters.
Pollock's use of semiabstraction and his partial concealment of representational images point ahead to the layered complexities of the drip paintings, where representation seems to disappear.
The question of whether "one out of four" constitutes adequate representation will likely be an issue in upcoming redistricting battles, with the undercount a point of contention.
There's no representation from Africa or Asia, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences point out that the purpose of the category is to identify great cinema, not to distribute nominations evenly throughout the world's film-makers.
The Historical Association told the BBC the reference to King John was not in its lesson plan but in an article it had published, in which the point was to show pupils that film depictions of historical figures "may not be a true representation of the past".