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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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The billionaire-owned S*n has some nerve to try and suggest Labour are run by an ‘elite’.

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One in five young people are taking drugs. It’s time to legalise and regulate

Josiah Mortimer
28 July, 2017

New figures show the UK’s approach to tackling drugs is failing. Now let’s find a sensible way of dealing with the fact that people like getting high.

Letter from a Corbynista: Labour needs to rethink its rhetoric on immigration

Bradley Allsop
28 July, 2017

The left of the party has to say it. Corbyn’s rhetoric on immigration is becoming a serious problem.

The Government’s air quality ‘plan’ isn’t a plan – it’s an abdication of responsibility

Molly Scott Cato
27 July, 2017

Green MEP Molly Scott Cato unpicks the government’s clean air commitments.

Crisis in local news deepens as seven London titles close

27 July, 2017

The National Union of Journalists is calling for an urgent public enquiry as local news-gathering and scrutiny is decimated.

Economic growth reliant on household debt – is this the next crisis?

Oscar Webb
27 July, 2017

A ‘spiral of complacency’ over consumer debt is posing a huge risk to the UK economy, the Bank of England has warned.

We’re becoming a country of food banks and Ferraris, but it doesn’t have to be this way

Dr. Wanda Wyporska
27 July, 2017

Two new reports cast light on the ugly face of poverty in Britain, whilst at the top the richest 1,000 people in Britain increased their wealth last year by £82bn.

The government has passed the buck on cleaning up our filthy air

Josiah Mortimer
26 July, 2017

By leaving out the single best means of tackling air pollution, today’s clean air strategy is a court-forced cop-out.

Why the Grenfell tragedy is about inequality

Kevin Gulliver
26 July, 2017

To tackle the crisis at the heart of Grenfell we need to tackle the inequality behind it.

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