Fuck me drunk. Despotic dictators who keep their citizens in fear of their lives and forty years behind the rest of the world are suddenly idolised by someone who sees sections of society as second class.

Nothing new there.

By the way, the HIV rates in Cuba cannot be measured as public health monitoring is selective. WHO publish their concerns regularly, and Cuban doctors who make use of the relationship with South Africa as a way of escaping the regime tend to publish all about it in BMJ.

That said, their training is good as far as it goes,but tends to be woefully out of date, so in order to work here or indeed to be on the specialist register in South Africa, it takes two years of a structured course in recent techniques and procedures in their speciality.

On other matters, I have been to Cuba three times on business and the grinding poverty away from the tourist areas are a stain on the whole rotten Castro regime. They saved the country from the worst excesses of USA business and replaced it with something worse.

Corbyn says nice things about him though...