David Cameron's smooth image is not all caricature - he has a right to be cocky | Simon Jenkins

Over the past year Cameron has emerged as a leader of real ability with a talent for luck. Libya aside, it can't get much better

If I were David Cameron I would stop now. It cannot get much better. The polls are up. The Telegraph and the Mail love him. He seems immune to bad news on the economy. At the end of his first year of office he has emerged as an adept political operator with a talent for luck. For all the dud trees in his coalition – two more sprouted this week on police and...