Speaking for Britain

Spectator readers are not going to like this, so I will keep short. Ed Milliband spoke for Britain last week, when he became the first senior politician in living memory to stand up to Rupert Murdoch. David Cameron looked and still looks like a little man and a bought man, who cannot say what he knows to be right because he is more frightened of offending his patron than defending the common good.  Until Cameron says unequivocally that a media baron whose organisation has engaged in a criminal conspiracy is not a fit and proper person to own BSkyB, he will carry on looking a diminished and seedy figure.

Incidentally, can we have no more calls for Rebekah Brookes to resign? They miss the point entirely. The buck stops at the top. The man at top is Rupert Murdoch not his bag carrier.