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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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Facebook’s latest move could prove a hammer blow to journalism

Josiah Mortimer
7 November, 2017

The media giant must stop and rethink recent changes that could undermine democracy in large parts of the world.

Why aren’t we acting on climate change? It’s simple: the power of corporate lobbying

Molly Scott Cato
6 November, 2017

The UN climate talks themselves are funded in part by corporations who have no wish to end our dependence on fossil fuels.

Whilst the rich hide their wealth abroad, a fifth of the UK live on poverty wages

6 November, 2017

The British establishment have allowed millions of people to fall into poverty whilst the country’s wealth is siphoned off abroad.

The Paradise Papers are the direct result of wilful Tory inaction on tax avoidance

Prem Sikka
6 November, 2017

The growth of offshore tax havens is no coincidence — the government prioritise helping the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else.

Why IPSA won’t recognise the parliamentary staffers’ union — and what can be done about it

Simon Sapper
6 November, 2017

The body regulating parliamentary standards must challenge the culture of casual harassment and abuse.

PETITION: Tell Parliament to recognise the union for MPs’ staff

Josiah Mortimer
3 November, 2017

Until the imbalance of power between MPs and staffers is challenged, abuse can continue to go unchallenged. The Parliamentary authorities should give workers a voice.

The cracks are growing in the UK’s privatised prison and probation service

Josiah Mortimer
3 November, 2017

Three years on from part-privatisation, staff and organisations working in the criminal justice sector are struggling to cope

Is this the beginning of the end for May’s government?

Ed Jacobs
3 November, 2017

This week has made the Conservatives’ future very uncertain indeed.

Why the Tories are terrified of releasing the Brexit impact papers

Richard Corbett
3 November, 2017

The Conservatives know the scale of the disaster Brexit poses – and they want to keep voters in the dark, says Labour’s leader in the European Parliament.

The Greens are right to call for consent lessons for MPs

Charlotte England
2 November, 2017

Many in Westminster don’t understand the power dynamics at play between male MPs, senior political party figures and other staff like assistants and researchers.

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