A Different Age

When Tony Blair was slow hand clapped by the Women's Institute, the media banged on about it for a week, and they returned to it periodically for quite some time thereafter.

But the far more vigorous heckling of David Cameron by Age UK has already been killed as a story.

As has his failure to present himself to the BBC Three Free Speech programme on which, so far, Ed Miliband, Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne Wood and Natalie Bennett have all appeared.

We have a Prime Minister who has been shouted down by a band of charity fundraising pensioners, and who is running scared of a BBC-controlled audience of middle-class teenagers.

But no one is allowed to mention this sorry state of affairs.