Mail Order

For many years, the BBC kept Blair in office by ignoring front-page stories, with heavy coverage inside, in the Mail on Sunday. Had the Corporation run with those stories, then Blair would have been very long gone indeed by now, rather than just feeling that way.

But we all know who today’s Queen Sloane is, and she isn’t Gordon Brown. So the Beeb is now resolutely pro-Cameron, refusing to run even the slightest criticism of him, or anything even remotely negative about him. And today’s big Mail story was a hatchet job on two Tory MPs. There was also an extensive interview with Derek Conway and his wife, Conway being, of course, both a key ally of David Davis and now a major embarrassment to the Conservative Party.

The Mail on Sunday is Fleet Street’s most consistent platform for those who are equally concerned about the closely related phenomena of European federalism, American hegemony, globalisation, mass immigration, the erosion of British culture, and the collapse of moral standards. Indeed, it is pretty much the only such platform. Its readers need to ask themselves what it is about Cameron that their paper dislikes so much. And what it is about him that the BBC likes so much.