Boris Johnson looked profoundly uncomfortable on this morning's Andrew Marr Show as stand-in host Eddie Mair grilled the Mayor of London on matters of personal integrity. Here's a transcript of one particularly bruising encounter:
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Page 3 Profile: Lord Black, former media mogul
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Back for another bruising encounter with Paxman?
The Sound of Things Falling, By Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. Anne McLean
Saturday 01 December 2012
The Conrad of Colombia returns with a novel of memory, mystery - and Escobar's hippo.
Work for your pension? That’s a bit rich, my Lord
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Our diarist notes the curious perspective of a senior Whitehall mandarin, has an update on the outspoken Nadine Dorries, and offers a reminder of Conrad Black's taste
There's something queasy about Conrad Black appearing on prime-time TV
Tuesday 23 October 2012
The media tycoon shouldn't have the platform of Have I Got News For You to defend himself
Conrad Black walks free, but faces a tough climb back to respectability
Saturday 05 May 2012
The disgraced former media magnate Conrad Black was heading to a home in Toronto, Canada, last night after being released from a prison in Florida where he had been serving time stemming from his 2007 convictions for defrauding investors in his now defunct newspaper conglomerate, Hollinger.
Conrad Black released from prison
Friday 04 May 2012
Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami today after serving about three years for defrauding investors.
Tim Lott: Blame the bullies – but don't forget those who let them get away with it
Sunday 17 July 2011
Rupert Murdoch – the Great Bully – may fade from view, but as long as the frightened and the craven give in, their tormentors will thrive
It's called The Open – so why is the golf club closed to women?
Saturday 16 July 2011
Royal St George's has welcomed the world to the sport's greatest contest. But usually half the population is shut out
Adrian Hamilton: A promise by Murdoch is meaningless
Friday 01 July 2011
The people one should feel sorry for, in the shame of the Government genuflection to Rupert Murdoch – or maybe it should be simply contempt – are the independent directors appointed to preserve the separated Sky news from his interference.
Diary: How the treatment of Conrad Black bleeds the heart
Monday 27 June 2011
The vindictiveness of American justice never ceases to astound. Fifty-year sentences under the three-strikes rule for stealing a slice of pizza; chain gangs and weevil 'n' maggot suppers in Alabama; a new craze for charging pregnant drug addicts who miscarry with murder ... we look across the ocean and recoil at the barbarity.
Conrad Black faces more lawsuits as he heads back to jail
Sunday 26 June 2011
Disgraced media tycoon asks Canada to allow him to return at the end of his prison sentence
Conrad Black's wife collapses in court as he is sent back to prison
Saturday 25 June 2011
Conrad Black, the Conservative peer convicted of fraud and obstructing justice in the US, was last night ordered back to jail amid dramatic scenes in a Chicago courthouse.
Media mogul Conrad Black back in court
Friday 24 June 2011
A judge is to decide today whether to send media mogul Conrad Black back to prison or let him remain free based on time already served.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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