Violent past of MA'M founder

The comic acronym for Movement Against the Monarchy (MA'M) belies its serious intentions.

Its founder, Ian Bone, 57, is a former leader of violent Eighties protest group Class War who is determined to bring down the monarchy.

He claims to lead 500 members from his flat in Hackney but has ditched Class War's tactics in favour of more imaginative methods.

Among his greatest hits were a "moon against the monarchy", when demonstrators would bare themselves outside Buckingham Palace, and plans to disrupt the Queen's jubilee celebrations with laughing gas and a tape of machine gun fire.

Prince Edward narrowly missed being hit by a flying chocolate cake during a walk-about in Hackney. Bone, a butler's son who attributes his class hatred to the days he overheard his father referred to by his surname by rich five-year-olds, has an avowed desire to overthrow the British state by violent means.