Will Conrad Black return to Britain in order to carry out his threat to sue his biographer Tom Bower? Ian Burrell speculates in today's Independent that the former Daily Telegraph owner will come back.
I somehow doubt that he would have the appetite, or the funds, to pursue a libel action, but Black marches to the sound of his own drummer, so he might just do that. Even if he did, my money would still be on Bower winning.
Black is expected to leave his Florida jail today following a Chicago appeals court decision that he should be released on bail.
However, there will be bail conditions that could well prevent him from leaving the United States. That was the case in 2005 in the run-up to his fraud trial.
If he is allowed to leave the US there is a belief that his first port of call will be neighbouring Canada, where he was born. He renounced his Canadian citizenship in order to accept a British life peerage. Does that mean he could sit in the Lords once again? Yes it does.
