The interesting piece on Munira Mirza and her new think tank, Civic Future (The Politics Interview, 11 November), omits perhaps the most interesting fact about the erstwhile head of Boris Johnson’s policy unit. Not only was her PhD supervised by Frank Furedi, she was also once reportedly a member of his Trotskyite faction the Revolutionary Communist Party, contributing to its magazine, Living Marxism.
This strange group later migrated from the extreme fringes of the left to the far margins of the pro-corporate libertarian right, without any stated change in either its aims or methods. Some of its former members now occupy influential positions close to the right-wing political establishment, including in the House of Lords, and particularly anti-green and climate-change denial organisations.
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