Related: Charles Kennedy, former leader of Liberal Democrats, dies aged 55 He was defined politically by the Iraq war as much as any other event, just as it defined its principal protagonists, Bush and Blair.
A close second on her debut at Naas earlier this month, the Oasis Dream filly confirmed that promise and won well considering she had to race widest of the main protagonists through the early stages.
Our two protagonists met up after some punditry on morning TV.
Tweeter John Hansen (@aboredauthor) was first to comment that perhaps Young Adult characters don't lead the most realistic lives... And, using the hashtag #VeryRealisticYA, Twitter users jumped on the bandwagon to explore several more likely outcomes for YA protagonists.
One recent study by the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University found that of the 100 top-grossing films last year, female characters accounted for just 15% of the protagonists.
But most of these studies were qualitative, based on a dozen books, and focused primarily on high-level content – the personalities of protagonists and antagonists and the plots.
Underpinning all these "problems" is a tender and heartfelt love story between the two protagonists, Tar and Gemma.
One example of this "echo chamber" in action can be found with the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) – a private membership group of free market protagonists established in the 1940s.
Set in a small Tuscan town it puts before us not only the expatriate protagonists but also the town itself, its history, its local residents and their life histories, all interspersed with scholarly digressions.
If Syria is in part a proxy war, these countries are the main foreign protagonists.
This is fast becoming the most toxic political debate we have endured for decades, one that demeans the protagonists, debases politics and defeats the national interest.
