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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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Hedge fund ‘hypocrisy’ charge should backfire on Tory press

Adam Barnett
23 March, 2015

Attacks on Ed Miliband over donations mean the Right doesn’t understand hypocrisy or is trying to mislead voters

‘Fit for the Future’? What ticket office closures mean for Londoners with disabilities

Val Shawcross
23 March, 2015

We don’t want to take a step back in accessible transport when we’ve only just started to take steps forward

Spending our property wealth led to the economic crash in 2008. What will spending our pension pots lead to?

Ripped off Britons
23 March, 2015

Osborne’s big idea to get households to spend more without any more income was that we should spend our assets

Daily Mail says ‘beware’ of migrants hiding in your car

Adam Barnett
23 March, 2015

Now they’re targeting our cars and caravans. Except they’re not.

How Osborne’s recovery really looks: graduates with £50,000 debt before they’ve left education

Carl Packman
23 March, 2015

The spike in personal debt is a reminder the economy is built on the indebtedness of large swathes of the population

Give people the power to put an end to cold homes

Caroline Julian
23 March, 2015

Targeting the private rented sector is an ideal place to start

NHS GP surgery

Another Tory government could mean 8.4 million people don’t have access to a GP

Ruby Stockham
23 March, 2015

House of Commons data shows that, over this parliament, 505 fewer GPs have been trained

New research shows cracks in the Tories’ refusal to work with the SNP

Ed Jacobs
23 March, 2015

Commons analysis reveals the extent to which the SNP and Conservatives voted together under the last Labour government

The average UK household will have £10,000 of debt by 2016, suggests new report

Ruby Stockham
23 March, 2015

There are concerns that a surge in optimism about the British economy is leading people to take out more loans than they can truly afford

Democracy shouldn’t be for sale – Cash for Peerages should unite the left

Paul Pettinger
22 March, 2015

Politicians must not be allowed to again kick reform of the Lords into the long grass

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