Cameron continues to refuse to comment on the issue of whether he smoked cannabis at Eton. This means that the media will probably have nowhere else to go with the story and consequently it will probably dissapear for a while, exactly like it did during his leadership campaign over a year ago. However the problem with saying nothing on the subject is that Cameron leaves the topic open ended, meaning that the media can return to it any time they get bored. But it seems that the public is already bored with the subject; the drugs issue really wont hurt Cameron because nobody actually cares. And why should they, the idea that people should think less of Cameron just because he made a minor mistake when he was fifteen years of age is ridiculous. I don't understand quite what the media thinks is so scandalous, the fact that Cameron hasn't instantly resigned from the legislature? Because there are many more people in the Houses of Parliament who have done much worse things than Cameron and still remain there. Take Jeffrey Archer he was imprisoned for perjury, yet he still has a seat in the House of Lords; I ask you which is worse a grown man knowingly breaking the law or a teenager experimenting with a soft drug?

The question of why the media is so interested in digging up as much dirt on politicians as possible is one which I will address at greater length in other posts. However, in short I believe that the media are trying to make politicians more and more like celebrities. They build the politicians up just so they can knock them back down again. And it works; just look at Tony Blair, in the nineties he was viewed as the saviour of British politics, and now he is one of the most hated men in the country. And why do the media do this? You might ask. Because when everybody stops believing in the politicians, who do they turn to, who can they trust; the only body with nearly as much power, the media.

So while I was hoping that the reason why nobody cared as much as the journalists about Cameron's cannabis was because that the population was more mature than the media, I unfortunately realised that this was naive. The real reason is that the media like to see politicians crash and burn even more than we do.