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Each week we choose three pieces from The Spectator and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Oskredminton and on the podcast this week.

Oliver Boschiano warns that we should brace ourselves for a coup in Brazil.

Then is three, or possibly even more, a crowd? Mary Wakefield discusses polyamory in her column for the magazine,

before Fiona Mountford tells us about the sad demise of church pews. Up first, Oliver Bosciano.

Jail, death or victory.

These are the three alternatives Brazil's incumbent leader says await him.

It is an unusual rallying call for an election campaign,

but this is Jaïr Bolsonaro, the Trump of the Tropics, and he may well be right.

Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 when his initial rival, Louisinaccio Lula de Silva, the country's former president, was jailed midway through the campaign on corruption

charges. Monsonaro, a relative unknown, beat the replacement workers party candidate by a 10%

point margin.

His formula was to focus on anti-corruption and conduct his campaign predominantly via social media.

The use of YouTube, Facebook, and most importantly, the gargantuan WhatsApp groups that are

part of daily life here, enabled Bolsonaro to project different images to discrete sectors of society.

Evangelical churchgoers got the faithful family man. Jim Bros and the satanasia country for music fans were introduced to the gun-loving former military captain.

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