Here, via the Daily Telegraph, is a brave attempt by Matthew D’Ancona, the editor of the London Spectator, to reconcile the Cameron project with an increasingly discontented right-wing. Mr. D’Ancona makes some good points, and some bad (note the snarkily dismissive way he deals with the topic of immigration), but, why oh why did he think that writing this was going to help Cameron’s cause?

[T]o say that Mr Cameron is an old-fashioned statist is simply incorrect. His ethos has much more in common with the “compassionate conservatism” espoused by George W Bush when he was Governor of Texas…

Oh well, that’s a relief then.