‘‘DISCUSSING UGANDAN affairs” has long been Private Eye’s euphemism for sexual relations. Whatever its origins in the sixties, it has now taken on a far more sinister dimension since the signing into law of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 by the President of Uganda last month.
It isn’t funny at all. It’s deadly serious. I don’t quite know how to convey how bad it is apart from by quoting from sections of the text, so that is what I shall do.
2. The offence of homosexuality
(1) A