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Reform’s first year running councils: ‘The atmosphere in the chamber has changed’

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Reform’s first year running councils seems to have been defined by a focus on ‘culture war’ issues

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch

LFF Live: How do we clean up politics? With the Good Law Project

LFF Reporter
24 April, 2026 (5 days ago)

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Latest Posts

Nuclear

To meet our climate targets, we need to ramp up nuclear energy in the UK

Sue Ferns
11 October, 2018

Nuclear and renewables must be seen as complementary options in a balanced energy policy – not alternatives, argues the Prospect union’s Sue Ferns

Sub-co strike: How NHS bodies can dodge national pay rates

Josiah Mortimer
11 October, 2018

The NHS-owned company says it ‘can operate more competitively against private companies’. Workers appear to be paying the price.

Saudi arms trade

Three ways a progressive government must reform the arms trade

Andrew Smith
11 October, 2018

In the wake of alleged war crimes in Yemen, there is a consensus on the left that it is time to stop arming Saudi Arabia. But what would a progressive arms policy look like?

Could this alternative theory of money radically change how we think about the economy?

Will Carter
11 October, 2018

A new project will promote the idea that it is the government – not the private sector – that creates money. In doing so, it could demolish the arguments for austerity…

Natalie Bennett: Why the Green Party is overhauling how it works

Natalie Bennett
10 October, 2018

Green conference at the weekend voted to back fundamental changes to the party’s structures, which will now go to an all-member vote. Natalie Bennett explains the move.

My country right or left: why progressives need to start considering patriotism again

Tristan Grove
10 October, 2018

The right have been allowed to dominate the patriotism issue for too long, argues Tristan Grove following the launch of a new Young Fabians pamphlet.

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-EU MEPs to meet BBC news exec after claims of pro-Brexit bias

Josiah Mortimer
10 October, 2018

UKIP provided 33 out of 35 MEP appearances between 2013 and 2018 – despite having one of the lowest attendance records among MEPs.

Theresa May’s housing announcements do not add up to a coherent strategy

Kevin Gulliver
10 October, 2018

National Housing Day: Tory plans will barely scratch the surface of the crisis in social housing, writes Kevin Gulliver.

Uber drivers attempt to storm company HQ

LFF Reporter
9 October, 2018

The union organising the strike said Uber are ‘in denial’ about the campaign

The crisis in student mental health isn’t about individual behaviour – but the marketisation of higher education

Edward Sugden
9 October, 2018

The young have been systematically marginalised: is it any surprise that their mental health should suffer as a result?

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