But the Lib Dems' difficulties will not end when and if the tuition fees row dies down.
Related: Mexican man dies during violent police response to teachers protest in Acapulco Six people died and 43 others disappeared last September when a bus convoy carrying a party of student teachers was attacked by municipal police officers, allegedly in league with a local drug cartel.
When a child dies of neglect or abuse, the local authority is accused of incompetence and negligence; if there is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, claims about inadequate precautions are heard; former employees of companies which have collapsed during the recession demand to know why more has not been done to save their jobs.
But after going away to fight the Yankees, Charles dies almost immediately.
Nobody dies in the media business – indeed, nobody leaves their job willingly, which means that nobody should take it too seriously.
The story of 16-year-old-Pearl, struggling to keep going after the death of her mother who dies after giving birth to The Rat as Pearl designates her tiny, newborn sister.
Related: Charles Kennedy, former leader of Liberal Democrats, dies aged 55 He was defined politically by the Iraq war as much as any other event, just as it defined its principal protagonists, Bush and Blair.
Charles Kennedy (Former leader of Liberal Democrats dies aged 55, theguardian.com, 2 June) was a rarity in public life: a thoroughly decent man who was honest enough to admit his failings and who was not treated kindly for doing so.
A policeman asked him: "Who gets to decide who lives or dies?" Breivik's answer: me.
It's enough to make you think that Dionte Green's case might follow the same path: young black man murdered without the protocol to investigate the terrible, complicated bias potentially behind the whole familiar crime, nothing changes, another black man dies tomorrow.
In winter, this monster dies back; its leaves are broken off and piled on top of the crown to protect it from frost.
