‘Lessons from Brazil: What Labour can learn from Lula’s victory’
In Brazil, President Lula pulled off a surprise victory. What lessons can UK Labour learn from his success?
Ben Twomey
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Lessons for a Labour landslide in the Conservative catastrophe of 1997
In nature, landslides are caused by disturbances in stability. Whether through the heavy rains of the cost-of-living crisis or the earthquakes of Tory scandals, the government’s foundations appear to be falling away beneath it. Much has…
The clock is ticking: the Vagrancy Act must be denied its 200th anniversary
“An Act for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds.” As pre-Victorian laws go, this one seems especially antiquated and amusing. Or at least it would, if it were not still enforced in 2022, criminalising…
Tough words and shifting sands: the government’s new drug strategy
'Look how tough I am' was the government PR script for this week’s long-awaited drug strategy release. It was peak Boris Johnson, as he dressed up as a police officer and told the cameras he had “already rolled up about 1,500”. I think he…
How every Labour activist can help tackle homelessness and addiction
The political turmoil of recent years has left Labour members, and the Labour leadership, waiting eagerly at the sidelines. Waiting for the next Labour government. So hopeful and impatient is this call, and so obsessed are the media with…