Hannibal Lecter, call your service

"We thought he was a cannibal... I don't know,
maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot."

Remind me never to accept a dinner invitation from Mr Chavez.

RIP

Red Ken's Oil Deal is Off

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced that he will end the deal set up between Ken Livingstone and Hugo Chavez to subsidise London buses using cut-price Venezuelan oil.

Hammering down this cynical attempt by Red Ken and Chavez to bribe London's poor into backing a tin-pot South American dictator shows that the windows are being opened and the fresh air of sanity is at last being allowed in.

Two Cheers for Venezuela

Hugo Chavez has had a setback in his bid to be anointed king elected president for life of Venezuela after losing the "reform" vote that would have allowed him to hold office until 2050.

Note that I said "setback." With dictators like Chavez it is always a matter of "heads, I win; tails, we flip again."