Will The Sun shine for a new Prime Spinister?
Forests of newsprint and wells of ink continue to be sacrificed for the man of the moment.
The Guardian gave a positive endorsement of his thinking today, while their media correspondent reports that The Sun is thinking of backing him.
Rupert Murdoch 'appeared impressed' when he met with the Tory leader recently, we are told.
As a former corporate communications exec for Carlton Communications (now under the wing of ITV), Cameron and his team may succeed in securing the support of the Murdoch press, The Independent, The Guardian and The Mail.
Having had a Blair-Campbell team, are we now seeing a potential leader and spin doctor in one, in the shape of Cameron?
On the subject of the Murdoch press, last weekend's Sunday Times also featured a story on the front of its News Review section that suggests that there is a growing well of compassionate conservative thinking in the US.
According to the author, Cameron fits the image of what they are calling a 'crunchy conservative,' a term, it is implied, that derives from this socio-political grouping's penchant for crunchy organic vegetables.
On this note, it will be interesting to see how his speech to the Soil Assocation later this week is received in the media.
Of course, there is the danger that, like Blair, Cameron is attempting to seem all things to all voters, with his recent rejection of' 'isms'. Until we see more specifics on policy, it is probably too early to say. But we have to at least bear in mind this possibility.
The interesting point borne out in the Sunday Times story was that the writer, Rod Dreher, having prospered from the best opportunities and wealth creation of the Thatcher-Reagan era, is only now beginning to reject the consequences of the worst excesses of that era.
His children, like myself, and others younger than him, are now faced with a world that, despite its wealth of opportunities, also presents us with greater uncertainty and insecurity than ever before.
'Nobody can doubt that the free market policies pioneered by conservative governments in America and Britain in the 1980s shattered the shackles of statism and made both nations freer and richer. But they were based on fundamentally materialist assumptions about human nature which conservatives ought to have known were inaccurate and which would lead in time to a loss of purpose, of community, of idealism,' Dreher tells us.
The same political force that accelerated the creation of many of our political problems is now supposedly going to reject the worst elements of its policies and re-tailor them to meet the needs of communities, the environment and younger generations.
How palatable this idea will be to the business and socio-political base from which Cameron has risen, and how that base might shape the finer details of policy remains to be seen.
Update - Guido Fawkes has more on
The Guardian gave a positive endorsement of his thinking today, while their media correspondent reports that The Sun is thinking of backing him.
Rupert Murdoch 'appeared impressed' when he met with the Tory leader recently, we are told.
As a former corporate communications exec for Carlton Communications (now under the wing of ITV), Cameron and his team may succeed in securing the support of the Murdoch press, The Independent, The Guardian and The Mail.
Having had a Blair-Campbell team, are we now seeing a potential leader and spin doctor in one, in the shape of Cameron?
On the subject of the Murdoch press, last weekend's Sunday Times also featured a story on the front of its News Review section that suggests that there is a growing well of compassionate conservative thinking in the US.
According to the author, Cameron fits the image of what they are calling a 'crunchy conservative,' a term, it is implied, that derives from this socio-political grouping's penchant for crunchy organic vegetables.
On this note, it will be interesting to see how his speech to the Soil Assocation later this week is received in the media.
Of course, there is the danger that, like Blair, Cameron is attempting to seem all things to all voters, with his recent rejection of' 'isms'. Until we see more specifics on policy, it is probably too early to say. But we have to at least bear in mind this possibility.
The interesting point borne out in the Sunday Times story was that the writer, Rod Dreher, having prospered from the best opportunities and wealth creation of the Thatcher-Reagan era, is only now beginning to reject the consequences of the worst excesses of that era.
His children, like myself, and others younger than him, are now faced with a world that, despite its wealth of opportunities, also presents us with greater uncertainty and insecurity than ever before.
'Nobody can doubt that the free market policies pioneered by conservative governments in America and Britain in the 1980s shattered the shackles of statism and made both nations freer and richer. But they were based on fundamentally materialist assumptions about human nature which conservatives ought to have known were inaccurate and which would lead in time to a loss of purpose, of community, of idealism,' Dreher tells us.
The same political force that accelerated the creation of many of our political problems is now supposedly going to reject the worst elements of its policies and re-tailor them to meet the needs of communities, the environment and younger generations.
How palatable this idea will be to the business and socio-political base from which Cameron has risen, and how that base might shape the finer details of policy remains to be seen.
Update - Guido Fawkes has more on
posted by John Reynolds at 10:22 p.m.
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