When Ken Livingstone was the alternative, Johnson was attractive, and the fact that he was a Tory more incidental.
Here, as everywhere, the truth leaves a breadcrumb trail through tiny, incidental details: the police's premature insistence that race wasn't a motive; the weekly paper leading with the "crackdown" on black "hawkers"; the 250 people calling for calm; the man selling "White Power" T-shirts.
That was an inference taken from his contribution to a debate about Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, in which he said: "In a very limited range of circumstances, an authorisation under RIPA part II may render lawful conduct that would otherwise be criminal, if it is incidental to any conduct falling with the Act that the source is authorised to take".
Throughout the course of what was to come they disagree about one or two incidental timings, but almost everything else that occurred remains closely with them.
"The increase in incidental diversity has to be a good thing on TV," Millichip said, adding that while it was helping she couldn't put a cash value on the impact.
The Arab corpses that lay strewn in the streets and along the coastline were no more than incidental colour to the Parisian spectator watching the slaughter through opera glasses from the deck of his cruise ship.
"This is the incidental nature of creativity, looking, watching, hearing stuff and it all goes in".
Because there is no formal involvement of original sources or public representatives in the decision-making process, there can be only incidental challenges to information that is delisted, and few safeguards for the public interest in information access.
Schumer's women are cheated on, forgotten about, and loved only for incidental reasons – an ill-advised perm, for example – unrelated to their actual selves.
Her resignation letter also makes clear that she regards the departures of Kenneth Clarke and the former attorney general Dominic Grieve in the recent reshuffle as not incidental, but symbolic of a new and more casual approach to international jurisprudence.
Japan understands geography differently: the trough is a mere "incidental depression".Japan's diplomats say their country "discovered" the islands in 1884.
