You'd have thought Tate's character would have realised from the outset that the seat was basically a two-way fight between Labour and Lib Dems.
They were actors in history, as he had realised from the age of ten, exploring bomb-sites in Norwich to find dogged new seedlings he already knew as aspen and sycamore.
Those who heard Lisa on the radio, as one of the first presenters of Nightwaves on Radio 3, on A Point of View and much else on Radio 4, might not have realised from the richness of her voice that she was in fact a small person, though she often added several inches to her height with stylish shoes, and her energy made her seem bigger than she was.
"What I have realised from having spoken to patients is that they never forget that conversation, and actually quite often they don't forget the specific words that you use," she says.
Over the past three years the firm has realised $800m of cash from such positions.
The prosecutors who took up the case alleged it was a continuation of the museum's "anti-state" and "anti-Orthodox" activity, equating the two.Perhaps the Church (and the state) has realised that the fallout from jailing Mr Samodurov and Mr Yerofeev would be more damaging than the exhibition itself.
A founder of the site, who asked not to be named, said: "The mainstream media has realised the value of reports from people who are participating in an event.
The government, he says, has realised that the economy could benefit from connecting the two booming clusters.
We have realised, often from mistakes and the promise of technology not being fully realised, that while technology can be a useful tool, it does not trump the deep, institutional and political factors and human motivation considerations that underlie exclusion and social change.
