Purloined from the Guardian's Diary today:

"This is her writing in the Canadian magazine Maclean's about life sans Conrad, the solace to be found in their many pets and the tribulations of their 70-year-old German "houseman" Werner. "Werner's kindness to every living creature from frogs to me is taxed by my insistence on hanging a large portrait of Joseph Goebbels by Toronto artist Tony Scherman in our living room," she says. "The picture depicts evil brilliantly and I've renamed it after several people in my husband's drama. Werner's late father happened to be the night chauffeur for fellow Rhinelander Reichsminister Doktor Goebbels, and he has a loathing of Nazism supplemented by a pained look whenever I play Wagner." "

Because sometimes the world can feel like a place in which there is no joy, no happiness, and the news serves merely to terrify or confuse us, I like to bring the occasional ray of happiness into my life and the life of those around me.

Ladies and gennelmen, I bring you:

'No one is above the law' - Conrad Black gets six years