When its developers, Grosvenor and Lend Lease, pulled out in 2011, the interests that wanted the bus station out of the way had gone; in that context, the council's determination to demolish seemed like some bizarre act of fealty, especially as it had no real plans for the area.
Although the order which authorises air strikes on Serbia remains in place and can be triggered by a Nato council decision, the diplomatic context has been seriously changed by the open split between the US and France over policies towards Iraq.
Comments about Birmingham assets such as the NEC being sold to investors from the Middle East have been taken out of context, the council's leader has said.
Trump expresses his frustration with the growing number of CEOs leaving his economic council — then, without any context, tacks on the word "JOBS!" in capital letters.
Bennett was at pains to frame the Cressingham decision, which he stressed had yet to be made, in the context of the council's election pledge to build 1,000 new homes at council rent levels for Lambeth residents over the next four years.
"On that basis, and in the context of the council's broader financial pressures, the officer recommendation is that the facility should now close".
In November Andrew Lansley, the secretary of state for health, stated that "social care services should not have to suffer because of the cuts imposed by the comprehensive spending review", adding that "local authorities in the context of their council tax are not seeing a reduction in cash terms of the resources available to them".
In a sign of how much has changed over the past two decades, Mr. Johnson had not given much thought to his condition in the context of the Council race; in a sign of how little the emotional climate around the disease has altered, Mr. Johnson had not, as it happened, told his mother.
Elsewhere, the grittier contexts of postwar council estate refurbishment and suburban homes in Essex bring the present housing crisis into sharp focus.
Putting this into context, we know councils are facing an estimated £1bn reduction in social care budgets as well as the pressures of growing demand and escalating costs in a system that is already underfunded, and it's clear that even the very best efforts of councils mean we will not be able to deliver all that we used to.
