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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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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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This week’s most read: Boris Nemtsov, Islamophobia and Clarkson campaigners

20 March, 2015

The most read stories on Left Foot Forward this week

Media Watch: ‘Better off’ with the Tories? Don’t believe a word of it

Adam Barnett
20 March, 2015

Tory press spins Institute for Fiscal Studies budget analysis to boost George Osborne

Union urges authorities to investigate unpaid police volunteers

Ruby Stockham
20 March, 2015

Volunteers are being used to help cope with the coalition’s vast cuts to jobs

Delivering growth to Britain’s regions

Diana Johnson
20 March, 2015

If we’re serious about ensuring that growth benefits the many and not the few, we must also tackle inequality between regions

A double bombshell for Scottish Labour

Ed Jacobs
20 March, 2015

There is widespread support for another referendum; now Labour must persuade the electorate that May is not a proxy vote for independence

What will the Budget mean for transport?

Richard Watkins
20 March, 2015

There are still questions to be answered about sustainable transport including rail infrastructure, buses, and support for cycling and walking

New report shows why public-private partnerships don’t work

Ruby Stockham
19 March, 2015

Secrecy and concealed borrowing protect commercial rather than public interests

Media Watch: The Sun’s ‘zombie Miliband’ game proves it’s not a serious newspaper

Adam Barnett
19 March, 2015

By portraying the Labour party as flesh-eating zombies, the Sun has crossed the line into active campaiging

The IFS confirms it: the worst Tory cuts REALLY ARE still to come

James Bloodworth
19 March, 2015

The respected think tanks says a Conservative government would see a ‘rollercoaster ride for public service spending’

Everyday sexism, every day in the Mail

Ruby Stockham
19 March, 2015

Today’s Theresa May headline plumbs new depths

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