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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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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Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.

Woke-bashing of the week: now even Stonehenge is woke

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 May, 2025

What the right cannot abide is the idea that our history is the product of many races and creeds, just as our present is too.  

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Right-wing media watch – Express’ farcical attack on Rayner and Miliband ‘hypocrisy’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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If the Express wants to decry hypocrisy, it should take a long hard look in a mirror.

Right-Wing Watch

Right-wing media outrage over Starmer’s tentative EU deal completely misses national mood

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 May, 2025

The right-wing media remain trapped in a 2016 time warp, still wildly waving Union Jacks and making snide digs at Brussels, oblivious to how far the country has moved on. For the right-wing commentariat, the old tunes are always the best. Updating the playlist has to be resisted at all costs.

A photo of Nigel Farage at Reform UK's local election campaign rally in Birmingham
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‘I have a feeling Reform candidates haven’t done any research other than reading the Daily Mail headlines.’

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 May, 2025

“We urge the board to show moral courage and leadership, apply the same ethical principles and values it did to Russia, and take all Israeli products off the shelves.”

Parliament
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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power

Prem Sikka
23 May, 2025

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

Anas Sarwar
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Reform UK accused of ‘blatant racism’ against Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar in by-election ad

Basit Mahmood
23 May, 2025

‘I have seen it, and it’s a very deliberate dog whistle’

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Charity Commission opens investigation into IEA

Basit Mahmood
23 May, 2025

After the Good Law Project threatened legal action, the Commission agreed to take another look.

Torsten Bell
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Labour MP Torsten Bell shares one simple fact on the economy that tears Tories apart

Basit Mahmood
22 May, 2025

It’s pretty damning…

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