Interesting use of words...

La Toynbee, in an otherwise uninteresting defence of the ridiculous jobs advertised, at our expense, by her employer, describes Lord Browne's severance package with BP as "£63m legally purloined from a public company holding all our pension funds"

Purloined: v. pur·loined, pur·loin·ing, pur·loins
v.tr.
To steal, often in a violation of trust.
v.intr.
To commit theft.

If it's legal, it isn't theft. Legal purloining is like consensual rape - a definitional impossibility. So it might be best if she only used words she understood in future.