Last week the UK's culture minister, Ed Vaizey, was given a rather hard time at a political hustings held at the Imperial War Museum in London. After a grilling by the audience of museum directors, curators and policy wonks (many aggrevied by the size of the Coalition govermnent's cuts), Vaizey was asked what he would put in a hypothetical museum of British political history. Responding to the mood of the night he offered his head on a spike. Who would have thought that a week and a day later the minister, who is the member for Wantage and Didcot, would be heading back to parliament as part of a majority Conservative government? The arts minister for the past five years could be looking forward to his own second term when Prime Minister David Cameron hands out the spoils after a narrow (and widely unpredicted) election victory.