The problem, says Mr. Shaiman, is the imperfect comparisons that must be made: "This year, the academy tried to do what they thought was the right thing, and they ended up excluding two musicals from being nominated at all".
In 2009 a Political Dialogue Forum was at first intended to include the political parties, but it ended up excluding even those that had once sympathised with the Commander's coup.
But "it is difficult to imagine that the founders' far-sighted vision of World Heritage protection envisaged a future world where we intentionally or accidentally ended up excluding half the surface of the earth the open ocean," Rössler writes.
African-Caribbean boys in particular are almost five times as likely as their white counterparts to end up excluded from mainstream schooling.
Services also need to be connected – so a child with mental health difficulties after a spell of homelessness, who is disruptive and ends up excluded from school, can receive a holistic assessment leading to mental health support and practical help with housing and finances for the whole family.
The Broadcast Film Critics Association are usually fairly reliant indicators of what will win big on Oscar night; however, as Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg points out, their younger and more diverse membership have a history of championing genre pictures like The Dark Knight, which then usually end up excluded from all but the technical awards by the Academy.
He added: "Inevitably that ends up excluding youngsters who have the right sort of grades and abilities but whose parents do not have the right sort of bank balances".
But there is a danger to this new brand of feminism as well: in its carefulness to include everyone it may end up excluding anyone who offends or dissents.
A spectacular Franco-German security initiative following the election in Germany, accompanied by a joint message to the Kremlin, would also have the benefit of sending a message to the rest of the EU, particularly to its Václav Klauses: "If you decide to paralyse the union through stubborn ill will, you will only end up excluding yourselves, rather than dictating Europe's fate".
