I enjoy a laugh as much as anyone and the newspaper industry – and it is an industry – has done much to contribute to my mirth over the past two months with a series of pre-emptive strikes ahead of publication this week of recommendations from the Leveson Inquiry.

Since I’m writing this the day before the report is issued on Thursday (29 November), what Leveson will recommend remains unclear, though the money has been on some form of beefed-up self-regulation with a statutory back-stop since day one.