Britain says au revoir to old-fashioned objective journalism

This article was published in The Sydney Morning Herald 7 May 2010

The British Conservative Leader, David Cameron as Obama?

Yes, you heard right. White, Eton educated, alumnus of Oxford and member of the old coat tails and top hat Bullingdon Club – but there it was in technicolour a la the famous Democrat ‘Hope’ poster on the front page of The Sun, one of Britain’s most popular newspapers.

And on election day to boot.

Oh, and if you hadn’t quite got the message from the headline - ''Our only hope'' - a sub heading provided a perky little aide memoir: ''In Cameron we trust''.