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How do we defeat Reform and the far right?

LFF Reporter
1 February, 2026 (6 days ago)

Hear from Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles at the first edition of LFF Live

A graphic advertising the LFF with Nick Lowles on February 10 at 6pm

Latest Posts

News

From ‘deeply uncomfortable’ to Dubai darling: Farage flip-flops on UAE Telegraph bid

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

His change of tone comes as Reform seeks to raise funds and boost its political profile among wealthy British expatriates in the Gulf.

Right-Wing Watch

The Epstein files and the right’s ‘selective transparency’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Even the young women and children who suffered because of the egos and sexual appetites of these powerful men are increasingly marginalised, and certainly the obscure source of Epstein’s wealth becomes lost in the psycho drama of media coverage. 

A photo of Lee Anderson at a Reform UK conference in Leicester
News

Lee Anderson reminded of his own political defections, after post asking if Oswald Mosley was a Labour MP

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“As I understand it Mosley dumped his Labour tendencies when the world of fascism beckoned – remind you of anyone 30p…?”

An image showing bank notes and pound coins
Opinion

National Insurance is a regressive tax that hits the less well-off hardest

Prem Sikka
Yesterday

Compared to income tax, national insurance contributions attract little sustained scrutiny even though they provide large amounts to the public purse.

Donald Trump
Opinion

America on the cusp: phones vs fascism

Claire Jones
Yesterday

We are watching a US inflexion point, where citizen action is confronting state violence and hardening authoritarianism. Where will it lead?

Zack Polanski speaking in a Green Party political broadcast
Opinion

Zack Polanski Learned What Starmer Refuses To: Every Good Story Needs a Villain

India Thorogood
Yesterday

Labour is failing to make a compelling case against the far-right, argues progressive campaigns adviser India Thorogood

BBC Question Time audience member slams Reform's immigration policies
News

BBC Question Time audience applauds young woman’s scathing criticism of Reform’s immigration policy

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

“I think your party especially isn’t giving me much to be proud of”

dan thomas

Reform slammed after appointing former Tory who was head of London council as party leader in Wales

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Dan Thomas led Barnet council between 2019 and 2022, when the north London council was seized by Labour, and defected to Farage’s Reform party last summer. 

Zia Yusuf
News

Anger after Zia Yusuf appeared on BBC Question Time for SIXTH time in 16 months

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Zia Yusuf has appeared on Question Time more often than the Green Party since the start of 2025

GB News

GB News presenters left embarrassed as poll on Starmer doesn’t go as planned

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

GB News got the opposite of the result they were hoping for.

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