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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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14 March, 2016

A quarter of all new wealth created in the UK since 2000 has gone to the top one per cent

Lib Dems officially back cannabis legalisation

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
12 March, 2016

They become the only major party to support legalisation of cannabis for recreational use

Comment: USA and Venezuelan Right aiming for ‘regime change’

Tony Burke
12 March, 2016

The right has launched a new campaign to oust Maduro, while Obama has renewed an executive order condemning Venezuela as an ‘extraordinary threat’

The ‘Lib Dem fightback’ starts with Europe

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
11 March, 2016

At the opening of the Liberal Democrats spring conference, Tim Farron attacked his Remain allies for failing to make the best case

Four notes on John McDonnell’s ‘fiscal responsibility’ speech

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
11 March, 2016

The shadow chancellor is responding to centrist concerns, but will face criticism from his left and right

Comment: Whether left or right, Europeans should hope for a Clinton presidency

Alessio Colonnelli
11 March, 2016

With the EU is in crisis, the last thing we need is an isolationist in the White House

Relief for Labour: Forecast predicts second place in Scottish election

Ed Jacobs
11 March, 2016

It’s unlikely that Scottish Conservatives will unseat Labour to become the main party of opposition, despite recent claims

Do we have Facebook to thank for the fall in teen pregnancy rates? Probably not

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
10 March, 2016

Claiming that social media has caused the fall in teen pregnancy neglects the impact of public policy on women’s health

Top scientists defend EU freedom of movement

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
10 March, 2016

Science is a useful case study for the broader benefits free movement

TTIP-style trade deals threaten jobs and pay in poorer countries

Ruth Kelly
10 March, 2016

Between 2010 and 2013, developing country economies grew almost twice as fast as wages — it’s time to make trade deals work for people

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