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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Olivia Barber
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

“The great dividers want you to think the problems in society are caused by migrants and refugees. They’re wrong.”

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Letters to the editor: What progressives can learn from 2025

LFF Reporter
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

We asked progressives from across the political spectrum about what lessons they think we need to learn and how to fight back in the year ahead.

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Olivia Barber
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Nigel Farage has already faced multiple calls to sack Parry over his remarks

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Nigel Farage and the right-wing media falsely claim Labour is considering delaying the general election

Olivia Barber
22 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

‘For all the Reform and Tory goons at the back who thrive on fake news… There’s no change to the general election’

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Olivia Barber
22 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

Reform has accepted almost £45,000 in donations from an entrepreneur who has had several run-ins with the law

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Reform councillors in Kent criticised over plans to spend up to £100,000 a year on political assistants

Olivia Barber
22 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

Reform campaigned on a promise to cut wasteful spending and save taxpayers’ money before the local elections

Woke bashing of the week: Font wars – Times New Roman strikes back

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

Place your bets now. In 2026, don’t be surprised if we’re reading headlines about “woke” fonts being purged from Reform-run councils altogether.

Right-wing media watch: One last swing at Ed! The right-wing press keeps missing the climate point

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.

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