"If We Ain't Getting Through to You, You Obviously Ain't Listening"

"He praises the Smiths for their 'brilliant' lyrics; while he was at Eton, he says the music of the Jam 'meant a lot'; his initial shortlist for Desert Island Discs included Kirsty MacColl's version of A New England, written by Billy Bragg. At one time or another, all of them were leaders of a subculture that pitted a good deal of British rock music against the party Cameron now leads, but he swats away that incongruity with the same blithe confidence he has used to remarket the Tories as zealous environmentalists and friends of the poor. 'I don't see why the left should be the only ones allowed to listen to protest songs,' he says, and that seems to be that."

John Harris in The Guardian wonders why Conservative Party head David Cameron has such a fondness for anti-Thatcher music from the 1980s.