Mao Now

No mention of Mao in the Chinese history section of the Olympic opening ceremony. But just wait for London in 2012. Will the present President of the European Commission still be in office? I can’t see why not. And he will doubtless be there, an utterly unrepentant old Maoist who went on to be a ferociously “free”-marketeering and pro-Bush Prime Minister of Portugal before being wafted into his present position.

A fit reward for overthrowing, in this country’s oldest ally and explicitly in the name of Maoism, the successfully anti-Fascist and anti-Marxist Estado Novo (so redolent of economically social democratic moral and social conservatism) and the successfully anti-Fascist and anti-Marxist Lusotopicalism (so redolent of British and Commonwealth patriotism).