Dubya's real twin

On a day of strange news stories, perhaps the strangest is the arrest of Maggie Thatcher's son Mark in South Africa, suspected of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, which would be just another African country with a corrupt dictator about which the West wouldn't care, except that it has oil. As one reads the details of Mark's life, it starts to bear strong resemblance to another son of a Cold War era leader.

Leaving aside the birth in the Spinal Tap-esque town of Scotney, consider the youthful antics intermingled with business careers of at best moderate success, the endless networking with parental connections, and then at some point the accumulation of apparently considerable wealth with opaque explanations about where it all came from. Then of course, history dealt different cards to each of them, and one of them seems to have wound up conspiring with unsavoury individuals to overthrow the dictator of an oil rich state. And the other moved to South Africa.