The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act became law on 28 April, after the House of Lords accepted the government’s insistence on reinstating authoritarian measures the Lords previously ameliorated. The resistance of the Lords, which did sink attempts to make the law even worse, came after a late wave of lively — though not particularly big — protests. Bigger protests, and mobilisation by the labour movement, could have pushed the Tories back much more. As it is the Act is very similar to what was first proposed in March last year. The first thing is to argue and organise in the labour...