• Frank Bongiorno

10 May 2010Britain will almost certainly face another election sooner rather than later, writes Frank Bongiorno in Inside Story

EARLY in the British election TV coverage on Thursday evening there was a cross to the BBC’s glamorous election party. We heard “expert” analysis from Joan Collins, Piers Morgan, Ben Kingsley and Bruce Forsyth. I tried recalling whether Kerry O’Brien and Antony Green had ever crossed to Bert Newton and Kerri-Anne Kennerley. Probably not; nor would it have occurred to the editors of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, for all their sins, to publish – as a front-page story on the day before an election – voting advice from, say, Kochie or Kyle.

Unfortunately the Tele’s Murdoch stablemate here in London showed no such restraint. Simon Cowell, having assured us that he “always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics,” proceeded to endorse David Cameron as prime minister and complain about the ills of modern Britain in terms that might have been taken straight out of the Conservative Party manifesto. “Cowell insists he is NOT telling anyone how to vote,” said the...

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