Talk:Ugandan affairs

Etymology
I do not think this account of the origin is correct (although it is getting repeated all over the web). I was a regular reader of Private Eye at the time, and the account given here fits my memory of how it started much better: i.e., "we were discussing Ugandan affairs" was an excuse given by a journalist to (implausibly) explain away a long time spent alone with an attractive African interviewee of the opposite sex (at a time when Uganda was much in the news). The accusations about the Ugandan government minister having sex in a public lavatory may well have been made at around the same time, but I do not think they were the origin of the phrase.

Sometimes the expression would be varied to just "discussion Uganda," or "discussion East African affairs."


 * [This should be resolved soon; the forthcoming 50 years of Private Eye is meant to include the origins of this phrase]
 * I concur, the aforementioned explanation is the correct one