Protest certainly isn't the "waste of time" Noel Gallagher thinks it is, but in a field like rock'n'roll where notional boundaries of taste and decency have been broken down for the best part of 40 years, iconoclasm and self-expression have become the norm.
The Observer called it a significant milestone in hip hop and West "the Brian Wilson of hip-hop" because he "plays up the struggle between conscience and covetousness, the pop mainstream and what can be achieved within the notional boundaries of hip hop".
Her constituency is the most marginal of any cabinet minister's, with a notional majority after boundary changes of 1,948.
The new seat is the closest to her previous seat, Glasgow Govan, but after boundary changes was a notional Labour win.
Following boundary changes, Labour has a notional majority of just under 5,000.
Boundary changes have left him with a notional majority of 8,000, but no one is predicting a victory of that margin.
The Conservatives, at 306 seats, emerged as the largest party by far but without a majority, gaining 97 seats over their notional 2005 total (i.e., basing the 2005 results on the 2010 constituency boundaries).
Notional results project what the result of the last election would have been if the new boundaries had been in place in 2009.
In councils where there have been boundary changes - resulting in a different number of seats up for election this year - the BBC uses a notional figure to project what the previous result would have been.
