Monday, August 11, 2008

Conrad's Intellect

Barbara Amiel's defence of her husband yesterday can be taken apart by others more certain of themselves than your blogmeister. But one phrase catches in my throat - 'My husband's exuberant displays of intellectual prowess....' Hang on, hang on. I once encountered Conrad Black's prowess at a think tank lunch and, frankly, if he had not been proprietor of the Telegraph at the time, I would have wacked him over the boundary as effortlessly as Andrew Flintoff, except that, unlike Flintoff, I would have had half of my brain tied behind my back.

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  1. Bryan. She is also comparing the the Black prosecution to the Dreyfus case. I know I don't know what to say, really. I think I'll go back to bed.

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  2. Don't do that, Nick, we need you up, moving about

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  3. God I feel awful and I didn't even drink that much last night, just a bottle of wine, a few beers and the remains of a kumquat brandy we picked up at a Dorking hypermarket. Reading Lady Black is no help, no help at all. Anyway I may have to steal your Olympic gag -- ahem, I mean pay homage to your Olympic gag-- for my Standard column today. There's nothing to write about apart from Georgia and I know nothing about Georgia. Next beer and bag of pork scratchings is on me if I do.

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  4. A fulsome tribute and small payment is all I ask. Kumquat brandy from Corfu I take it

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