Harry's Place reports that Boris Johnson has appointed Revolutionary Communist Party member Munira Mirza to be an adviser on cultural affairs which seems to be stretching the Big Tent theory to its limits I would have thought. No doubt the scumbag Gilligan will be blasting this story all over the Evening Standard.

Meanwhile, Michael Mosbacher at the Social Affairs Unit, tells us that...

Munira Mirza herself runs what in less charitable times would have been described as a front organisation - the Manifesto Club. Its strap-line is "history is still young". This might seem just an anodyne bit of snappy copy, but it fits rather well into what is the overall perspective of the Revolutionary Communist Party coterie. Their perspective is that Marx is right, only that previous Marxists have got the timing wrong. We are still in the productive stages of capitalism - the time for revolution will still come, it is just that history is not ready yet.