The election of Hollande is like a wonderful dream, but I do have to nit-pick. His gender-equal cabinet is not truly gender equal because it is led by a man, Hollande himself, who is responsible for its composition. One imagines that were Hollande a woman, gender-equality in the cabinet would be deemed unnecessary – or, worse, an example of 'reverse sexism'. Here's to an all-female cabinet, all-minority cabinet, a French government entirely of gay bastards who will crush French chauvinism beneath a lesbian jackboot. It sounds like I am being sarcastic, but I am entirely semi-serious.