This has more to do with the (pink) BBC and (red) Channel 4 working with liberal political party's in to set the political agenda for the day.

State funded broadcasters need to be careful.............. They operate under different rules from their comrades at the Guardian and people are now watching.

QT, Newsnight, BBC news editorial policy and most outsourced youth production are all ripe for investigation.

@Marcus

Say what?!

@Marcus

The BBC has always been small-c conservative - look at its attitudes to strikes (see the Glasgow Media reports into its coverage of strike action etc in the 70s) and its fawning spouting of government PR. Just because one of their presenters has the temerity to ask an embarrassing question of the PM, you get into a tizzy fit about bias. Bet you didn't mind when they asked "tough" questions of Labour ministers. Ahh - has it upset you? Grow up, the rest of us did years ago.

Yes for his crimes Cameron went to Eton and Oxford, is there something wrong with leaders being well educated!
I think the Oxford and Harvard educated
Elite Ed Miliband should stop being such a chameleon he is no champion of the working classes, they are just a necessity.
Also the Left and the BBC to compare the short-term bad behaviour of a few students to justify lawless thugs with their self-pity, violence and hatred is just plain wrong.There are people dying in the middle-east for the freedom we have, there are also countries in the world where people live in extreme poverty, and without Free health care, welfare, education and housing -I think i will save my pity for them although i am sure they would hate pity.

But, p j wall, WE are in power and you are not. Chew on that oh marxist one.

With friends like these ...........! Surprised Rupert Murdoch's name has been left off list of youthful friends of the Labour Party.
What's all this about hardening arteries?
Remember the Mockney Charade? It was quite an issue. Public school chaps and chapesses pretending to come from oh so 'umble circumstances.
Then they showed their school colours when Tory ex- state grammar school gals and lads took hold of the reins.
How frustrating for the present Tory meritocracy now that mummies and daddies' little investments are hogging all the limelight.
Gosh, with all this aspirational guff about you would think there must be a palace revolution.

Ivy Leaguers

I think they have heard of the stagnant economy, Adam. It's only the boy George who believes stagnation is good.

This is a pathetic article.

@Pat - Have you seen the list of former members of the Labour Party currently employed as presenters and producers at the BBC?

The list is very damaging to the BBC as a 'neutral' broadcaster and to the fabric of our very society.

Dimbleby, Marr, Crick, Wark, Paxton, the list goes on and on............ and yes the guy asking the question was a member of the Labour Party as well.

The only former Tories at the BBC are Neil and Robinson.

What about the little mentioned Channel Four?

Anybody who deems Jon Snow anything other than a member of the Looney-left needs there head examining.

My head? I'm fine. Thanks for asking. I am not either a Tory, or right wing. I can however see the obvious bias within the BBC.

Even the BBC bigwigs note that they are institutionally left wing so silly insinuations that they are small 'c' conservatives is as vapid as it is nieve.

Seems to me that the Labour tribalists commenting are less interested in a free society and more interested in getting their own way.

That is why socialism, which sounds like a good idea to some in principal, fails and fails utterly.

This must go down as one of the stupidiest acts by the Labour Party. They lay themselves open to any kind of accusation as to their past. Conservative Office will be bevearing away. Labour are in total disarray with this desperate stuff. Who cares and where does it take the debate as to the riots?

The only correct response to any Bullingdon club damages is that anyone breaking the law should be dealt with. The PM should have said this...I can't help feeling that youthful indiscretion accounts for some of those in jail for taking a bottle of water in the riots...

BBC Bias, that old gag. Nick Robinson has no problem schilling for the Conservative Party.

In the post-war Britain of the Great War it is alleged that a party of four or five threw and a fellow university student into a river in the neighbourhood of their seat of learning. He drowned. And there was suspicious bruising! This student had allegedly espoused leftish views inflaming these British patriots whose elders had just subdued the HUN. One of the group became the ultimate Hollywood villain of the thirties, forties and fifties. Another group member rose to be a high court judge. The remainder appear to have been rugby hearties.
Such youthful indiscretions are naaturally par for the course. We say bring back 'rag' week. That's the way to let off steam.
There should be one cavaet - the perpetrator/s must have been to public school. Not grammar school or a poor-man's model institution funded at taxpayers' expense.

Level Eton Field

j wall: Your certainly left-in-the-head!! vacantly left-in-the-head!!
Please.. patients not 'inmates' that so politically incorrect, you should know that being a rabid lefty...

Unlike a few trolls here, I actually want to know the truth about Cameron's past. I think this is entirely reasonable. If he engaged in criminal activity, I do say if, then many people would be appalled, and would wonder if he is unfit for his current role.

Labour challenges Cameron on his Bullingdon past. 'Bollocks' who cares about Mr Toffee-nose. Let's talk about Nasally challenged Ed Miliband's Marxist past!!

Old enough to remember previous disastrous Labour governments. How old are you?