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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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
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.
ReplyDeleteDon't do that, Nick, we need you up, moving about
ReplyDeleteGod 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.
ReplyDeleteA fulsome tribute and small payment is all I ask. Kumquat brandy from Corfu I take it
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