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The Times - Quiet Diplomacy
It is time to revive Britain’s interest in the Commonwealth

The Queen arrives in Uganda on Wednesday to begin a two-day state visit to an African country that in many ways has been a beacon to the continent in showing how to overcome dictatorship and economic collapse. For although Yoweri Museveni, the President, has shown autocratic tendencies and a recent reluctance to observe constitutional term limits, he has, for 20 years, nursed Uganda back from the ravages of Idi Amin, confronted the scourge of Aids and given a younger generation stability and modest prosperity. Two days later, the Queen will preside over the opening of the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that will itself have to take far-reaching decisions on repression in some of its members, misrule in others and the enforcement in all 53 members of the principles of good government and democracy on which this unique grouping is officially based.

I say take the ones misbehaving and give them back to the Queen.