Idi Amin

The exquisitely dull life of Elizabeth II, expert on cap badges

9 May 2026 9:00 am

‘I spend most of my life conversing with strangers’, admitted the late Queen, hosting endless receptions, launching ships, taking salutes and pinning medals on civic worthies

Expelled from Africa’s Eden

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Lucy Fulford never fully explains how this community was so easily scapegoated, nor why Idi Amin’s decree caused such jubilation across East Africa at the time

Tyrants at table

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Private chefs keep many secrets and are expected to go to their graves without sharing a morsel of gossip about…

Britain is following in the footsteps of Africa’s former failed states

5 October 2019 9:00 am

Kenya   ‘In the past months the people of Uganda have been following with sorrow the alarming economic crisis befalling…