Another one bites the dust

Another court case, another disgraced Tory peer. Yesterday media tycoon Conrad Black finally faced up to prison which many believe he so richly deserves. Fraud and obstruction of justice; tsk tsk. Caught on CCTV carting away boxes of documents as investigators were closing in really is quite incriminating. It's another scalp for super-prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, but it also exposes the Daily Telegraph - that institution of right-wing arrogance - no less than its Sunday sister as once being owned by nothing more than a petty crook, who, unlike Robert Maxwell, justice got. The Telegraph sees itself as high and mighty, but for the true aristocracy it is just a parvenu and this ruling merely confirms that. Overall though this is probably the last chapter in the 1990s sleaze that badly infested the Conservative Party and contibuted to its exile from power.