Conrad Black is feted at lunches, parties and dinners in his honour

The disgraced former media tycoon, Conrad Black, appears to have put his jailbird past well and truly behind him.

Andrew Roberts, writing the diary in this week's Spectator (ex-proprietor: C Black), writes:

"I've got very bad news for those of his enemies who predicted that he'd be a social pariah when he got out of jail.

At lunches, parties and dinners I've attended this week in his honour, he and Barbara have been feted by the leader of one of Britain's largest political parties, a household-name supermodel, a former foreign policy adviser to a revered prime minister, members of the royal family, a senior industrialist, a former Commonwealth prime minister, a former British foreign secretary, several House of Lords colleagues of his and Britain's most respected publisher."

So the one-time owner of the Telegraph Media Group has been readily rehabilitated among the great and the good.

But Roberts really should have named the people on that list. It is intriguing, is it not, to wonder who fits the description as Britain's most respected publisher.