Until July 4, 1976. The next issue of Punch after the Entebbe Raid had a ludicrous account by Idi of his great victory in “de famous Battle o Entebbe.” The one aftr that had a long piece from Idi telling how the “damn poperlace” was rampaging through the Presidential Palace, burning the national collections of Playboy and Penthouse, and destroying a thousand years of civilization, “well five maybe.” It was, wrote Punch’s Ugandan correspondent, time “to put de fambly lugar in de mouf” and pull the trigger. And, of course, he blamed it all on the Jews.

Unfortunately the piece was not real, and Amin lived to massacre more people and finally escape to live out his life in The Wahabbist Entity. But Punch’s humorous series mocking him was great. Two collections of them were published, “The Dispatches of President Idi Amin” and “The Further Dispatches of President Idi Amin,” by Michael Coren, I think. They are rare collectors’ items now.