Ed Miliband’s Leveson response shows his weakness: he’s a follower, not a leader. – Spectator Blogs

The biggest risk in punditry is the determination to see what you want to see. Confirmation bias is an ever-present clear and present danger to solid thinking. Nevertheless, though keeping this in mind, I wonder if Ed Miliband’s reaction to the Leveson Report has been wise, far less a response that will help him win the next election.

By “wise” I mean wise in a purely political sense, not “wise” as in appropriate, sensible or well-judged. The Labour leader’s demand that Leveson’s recommendations be implemented is, in its way, remarkable. This, after all, is a 2,000 page report published in four volumes. And yet within this mountain of ponderous, muddle-headed thumb-sucking Mr Miliband has not been able to – or has chose not to – identify a single passage with which he might quibble. This is an opportunity for David Cameron. Heresy Corner has a bracing post that goes some way towards explaining why this might be so:

Leveson’s predictability, though, goes beyond the familiar nature of much of the evidence, and the fact that the central conclusion – calling for a semi-independent regulatory body with statutory “underpinning” – was well trailed in advance.