While we're waiting...

...for Adam to give us his latest thoughts on what is the greatest threat to Western civilisation since the last one, let's try and imagine his reaction to current events on the basis of previous statements.

First up, Lord Conrad Black has been caught on camera removing boxes of documents from his office despite a court order to hand them over. This was Adam's take on Black's activities a couple of months ago:

Right now, the company has been essentially stolen from Black by a renegade board of directors as Hollinger International. Whatever abuses Black may or may not have committed, strike me as immaterial in view of the fact that he owns a controlling interest in the company. It's his company; he ought to have a perfect to do with it pretty much as he wishes.

Of course, that's a little extreme. And so, I suppose, were a few of Black's actions here and there. Using $9 Million in company money to buy FDR memorabilia does, admittedly, seem a little over-the-top. But, then again, as I've said: no Black, no Hollinger, so who are the people who bought in to complain? If you buy into a company owned by someone like Conrad Black, you should expect them to behave like Conrad Black.

('A Great Man, Much Maligned', March 23, 2005)