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Day: 9 May 2025

Why policy and legal change takes time – a 10-20 year time horizon

9th May 20259th May 2025 by Aaron

If you want policy and legal change, it will take time. It is going to take a lot longer than you expect. It took William Wilberforce 20 years to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. It took Nelson Mandela around 30 years in his campaign to abolish apartheid. The campaign had been going … Read more

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