Luz drew the magazine's first cover image a week after the attacks, portraying Muhammad with a sign saying "Je suis Charlie" under the words "All is forgiven".
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta), is a sharply observant, if slightly fantastical, satire on modern family life that made me laugh out loud.
John Biggs, the Labour candidate who is favourite to win, could be forgiven for giving up on the borough.
Given their torturous progress en route to the finishing line Wigan could have been forgiven for wishing the season had finished in March, when theirs had effectively ended.
Given the accuracy of the masonry and missiles being directed at the police lines you could have been forgiven for thinking that some of the Ardoyne rioters would be ideal candidates for the javelin, discus and shot put teams of the British Olympic team for London 2012 … if of course they were ever prepared to join any entity with the word "British" in it.
With throngs of shoppers darting in and out of stores on Grafton Street and drinkers slaking their thirsts outside the pubs on side streets all the way up to St Stephen's Green, you could be forgiven for wondering, momentarily at least: recession, what recession?
But why do Muslims need to be forgiven?
It's as if all has been forgiven – and it serves to dissipate a lot of the tension that had built up at this point.
This tribute was prompted perhaps by Longford's optimistic avowal to the Germans that the British had forgiven them the wartime excesses.
Still, a lot of these problems could be forgiven if Gravity didn't commit the worst sin of all: being intensely boring.
Poor results, one win in ten, have been largely forgiven during a regeneration/preparation process but it is now time for Australia's great coaching hope to deliver.
