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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

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23 December, 2025

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It’s not just English schools that the government wants to see in private hands

Tamasin Cave
14 April, 2016

The Tories are exporting radical school reform around the world

Audit shows increased political engagement but EU uncertainty

14 April, 2016

Study of the ‘political pulse’ of the nation shows post-election boost in engagement, lack of knowledge about Europe and continuing frustration with the political system

Corporate tax avoidance costs poor countries up to 26 times more than rich ones

Diane Abbott
14 April, 2016

By fixing the global tax system we send a message that Britain supports the poor over the rich

Corbyn to make the case for ‘Remain and Reform’ in Europe

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
14 April, 2016

The Labour leader delivers his first major pro-EU speech in London this morning

Heavy goods vehicles meet less than a third of the costs they impose on society

Philippa Edmunds
13 April, 2016

Market distortion gives road freight an advantage over rail, causing uneccessary collisions, congestion, road damage and air pollution

Does the lack of interest in John Whittingdale’s behaviour reflect changing attitudes to sex work?

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
13 April, 2016

While the minister’s relationship with a sex worker has been treated as a liability, a majority of the public support decriminalisation of sex work

UNISON will campaign for the UK to stay in Europe

13 April, 2016

The public service union believes that public sector workers and those they support will be better of in

European Commission has taken a major step forward on tax avoidance

Anneliese Dodds
13 April, 2016

Under the new proposal, companies will be forced them to reveal where they make profits and where they pay tax

House of Lords votes to stop the detention of pregnant women in immigration centres

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
12 April, 2016

Peers supported the amendment to the Immigration Bill with a margin of 59 votes

UK workers get 1.5 billion extra days of paid holiday thanks to the EU

Paul Sellers
12 April, 2016

Paid holiday entitlements were declining in the UK in the years before the EU Working Time Directive was adopted

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