Cam's in a Jam with Paul Weller.

Byline: Stuart Maconie

David Cameron, The Toff-father, has incurred the wrath of Paul Weller, the Modfather and former Jam frontman, over punk anthem Eton Rifles.

Back in 1979, when Dave was an even more shiny-faced and strawboatered youth at the aforementioned Eton, The Jam classic was his favourite tune.

Weller is livid, saying of the song he wrote after watching Eton's public schoolboys baiting unemployed marchers: "Which part of it didn't he get? It wasn't intended as a f***ing jolly drinking song for the cadet corps." Cameron has responded limply: "I don't see why the left should be the only ones allowed to listen to protest songs."

Fair enough but it does kind of miss the point that it was Cameron and his chums who were being protested against.

It's a bit like PW Botha saying he and Mrs B always enjoyed a knees up to Free Nelson Mandela or Ian Paisley putting U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday in with his Desert Island Discs.