Rick's St Mary's Diary

So David Cameron smoked weed in school... So what? I think he is exactly right in demanding a pre-political private life, and he'd be right ot demand much more than that as well. I've said this before, and I'll say it again - the press should leave these kinds of stories well alone. It does nobody any good at all, and I applaud Mr Cameron for not coming out and admitting his childhood prank (because, let's face it, that's what it was). He could make a lot out of this story - come clean, lambast the press for its intrusion, say it was childhood experimentation - but he's keeping quiet and not engaging with a media who are so desperate for scandal that they dredge up decades old classroom japes.

What next?

""Cameron incontinent as new-born!" says ex-midwife"
"Tony Blair snogged two girls in one night at disco in 1968!"
"Campbell swore, in 1954!"

It's ridiculous.

Rick