The Maoists meant well, at first

With a Maoist sect in London facing slavery allegations — including the imprisonment of a Malaysian woman — an author wants to remind the world that many took up Maoism for the best of reasons.

THE recent revival of British surreal comedy group Monty Python has come with a bizarre reminder from south London that once, long ago, there were a few tiny Maoist groups in Britain who used language that could have been cribbed from the Monty Python film Life Of Brian.