(This is by Tabman)

It seems that the media love-in with "Dave" Cameron is showing signs of coming to an end. Admittedly, the Independent was never going to be chief cheer-leader for the Witney Wunderkind, but today's Third Leader examines the spinning coming from Cameron's choice of music on Desert Island Discs:

Oh for the days when people said what they meant and meant what they said. The days when - to take one quite random example - the castaway on Desert Island Discs chose a Brahms concerto or a Mozart mass or even "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" because they really liked it rather than because they thought we'd think better of them for liking it.

Indeed.

His choice of the music of the "regular guy" shows he's still working hard to steal Blair's mantle - even chucking in "a flick of Ernie-style proletarianism" for good measure.

Finally, to use another cricketing metaphor, the shine my be coming off Mr Cameron's new ball - good for spinning, perhaps, but easily read; no Muralitharan he.

Which brings us back to "Dave" Cameron marooned on his Desert Island with his Jura Whisky and a cookery book. Once upon a time, it was though that the music revealed the person. Now, it is not just the turntable that spins.