Barbara Amiel gains a bleeding heart

Barbara Amiel, the wife of the disgraced Canadian tycoon (Lord) Conrad Black, currently serving a six-and-a-half year sentence in the US for fraudseems to have developed a social conscience. Writing in the latest edition of Canadian magazine Macleans, for which she is a columnist, she talks about her communions with other jailbird's wives, relating it to the credit crises in America. "Donna Lee had colon cancer, now she's got liver cancer, and the chemo has given her bad osteoporosis and she can't serve 'no more'. She wants to work but if she earns more than an extra few hundred dollars a month, she loses her monthly $950 disability payment. You can see she was stunning once, back when she was... [read full story]