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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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London-based magazine shut down by hackers after criticising Turkish President Erdogan

3 March, 2015

The World Weekly was targetted by hackers after publishing an article critical of the Turkish government

Left Foot Forward poll: vast majority think MPs should be banned from having paid directorships and consultancies

Ruby Stockham
3 March, 2015

Should MPs be completely banned from having second jobs?

Good news: the pay gap has narrowed. Bad news: Londoners’ wages are getting worse

Ruby Stockham
3 March, 2015

Annual pay rose 2.5 per cent for the average Londoner, compared to 5.9 per cent for the rest of the UK

Local Enterprise Partnerships should play a major role in a Labour government

Richard Carr
3 March, 2015

Labour’s pledge to devolve £30bn to a series of localised public-private partnerships is a pretty good rebuttal to the line that the party doesn’t like business

Brown slams SNP’s constitutional navel-gazing

Ed Jacobs
3 March, 2015

Brown urged Labour to focus on what matters most to the people of Scotland

What are the dangers of cashing in your pension?

Glyn Jenkins
3 March, 2015

It’s no great leap to see this policy coming back to bite us

YouGov poll: 63 per cent of people think no party can control immigration

Ruby Stockham
2 March, 2015

Despite worries about public services and benefits system, people are more likely to have friends from diverse backgrounds than they were ten years ago

Executive pay is damaging the reputation of business

Luke Hildyard
2 March, 2015

Addressing dysfunctional levels of corporate pay is necessary to create the kind of stable society that business needs in order to flourish

Is a Unionist deal possible in Northern Ireland?

Ed Jacobs
2 March, 2015

With the electoral landscape unlike anything seen before, both Labour and the Conservatives should also be looking at the possibility of a deal with the unionists

100 people too mentally ill to work get their benefits sanctioned each day

Ruby Stockham
2 March, 2015

A new report exposes the human cost of the punitive benefits sanctions system

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