Great review, I don't think Idi Amin has ever been forgotten, certainly not in the UK, after all this country played a part in creating this monster. 

Unfortunately he was treated almost as an imbecilic caricature here, (pretty much as a certain G.W. Bush has been) but that didn't exactly help to communicate the heinous deeds he was extolling on his own people. Why did the British government do nothing to help the people of Uganda?

Seems to be one rule for one despot and one rule for another. If they had found oil in Uganda it may have been a very different story. 

Cheers Trev.