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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

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Ed Jacobs
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Tory gains from the Lib Dems could push them ahead of Labour as they continue to lose seats to the SNP

Even Tories regret what they’ve done to the NHS

2 February, 2015

Conservative MP Stephen Dorrell accuses his party of caring more about headlines than patients

The cost of another Tory government

2 February, 2015

A continuation of the Bedroom Tax will cost households £3,800 over four years

15-minute visits are just one symptom of our broken care system

Matthew Egan
30 January, 2015

We need to address the funding crisis which has pushed so many homecare workers to the limit

Education ministers employ a ‘light touch’ when overseeing schools

30 January, 2015

Lack of clear guidelines means there are insufficient interventions in schools with major problems

IS a DUP-Labour deal possible? History says maybe

Ed Jacobs
30 January, 2015

Northern Ireland MPs have propped up governments before, and now a former first minister has hinted at a Labour deal

Personal debt is set to boom in 2015 – communities must change tack

Carl Packman
29 January, 2015

We are caught in a debt-trap and we all need to talk about it

The Tories lose yet another member to UKIP

29 January, 2015

Bradford councillor Michael McCabe will try to retain his seat for UKIP in May

Miliband promises home rule for Scotland while Sturgeon puts her foot down

Ed Jacobs
29 January, 2015

Rebuttals abound in the discussion on home rule

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Tackling inequality means tackling tax dodging

Charlie Samuda
29 January, 2015

We can’t provide world class public services if a few at the top keep dodging their obligations

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