It will be a bad thing, for example, if people conclude that it is immoral for politicians, or their special advisers, to have close contact with the media. The country cannot be run properly if government departments do not know the people with whom they need to deal – doctors, farmers, soldiers, bankers, journalists, all sorts and conditions. I confidently predict that a dismal result of all this will be that even more rules will be invented to prevent ministers having contact with the wider world. To talk to non-governmental human beings, they will first have to clear it with the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood. They will be more imprisoned by Whitehall than ever before. The MPs’ expenses scandal has produced the ghastly side-effect that the people we elect are now controlled by a body (Ipsa) run by people we did not elect. Leveson will produce more of the same.