Freed from the need to give Lib Dems cabinet posts, Cameron will now have more ministerial jobs with which to buy the loyalty of the right of his party.
Freed from the pursuit of achieving the impossible, writers have instead been inspired to calibrate Chekhov's work through their own standing ground.
Freed of the need to defend its currency from capital outflows, it was able to loosen monetary policy.
Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.
The island has no roads, cars, electricity or running water, but it does have more than 900 inhabitants, mostly descendants of freed slaves who settled the island in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The film features a freed slave (Jamie Foxx), living in the pre-Civil War deep south, going on the rampage against a ruling class of white plantation owners.
By rights his latest movie should count as the icing on the cake, in that it's about a freed slave on a mission of reprisal.
Liberia was founded in the early 19th century by free African Americans (not by freed slaves, as is often presumed, though many freed slaves followed).
Directly across the street, until the 1980s, there was a café called A la bonne Santé (literally, "to your good health" – santé means health) where the newly freed men would toast their liberty before drinking themselves dead drunk.
They were officially freed to speak in 1975, but few did.
Quantitative easing, coupled with low interest rates, freed up capital in the US and encouraged a steady rise in risk appetite amid the Fed's ultra-supportive monetary policy.
