Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Sign up
  • Right-Wing Watch
  • Reform Watch
  • Columnists
  • About
    • About LFF
    • Write for LFF
    • Advertise with LFF
    • Our complaints policy
    • Privacy
  1. Trending
  2. Labour
  3. Brexit
  4. Boris Johnson
  5. NHS

Thank you for supporting independent media

We’re so grateful for your donation and will make sure your money goes as far as possible

Spread the word about us:

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.

From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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.

A photo of an NHS protest with the Left Foot Forward logo in the top right corner

LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

Left Foot Forward

Latest Posts

Road tax should be more progressive

Mark Rowney
12 May, 2014

Current road tax rules hurt poor car owners more than the rich, writes Mark Rowney.

Is time running out for the yes to independence campaign?

Ed Jacobs
12 May, 2014

Time is running out for the nationalists to realise their dreams of an independent Scotland, according to the leading pollster John Curtice.

No Boris, the BBC are not Boko Haram

Jenny Jones
12 May, 2014

Boris Johnson has outdone himself in offensiveness and hyperbole.

If Gary Barlow had committed benefit fraud Cameron wouldn’t be so sympathetic

James Bloodworth
12 May, 2014

We should be a lot angrier about the antics of people like Gary Barlow than about purported benefit fraud.

Is the Boko Haram menace rooted in poverty or fanaticism?

Leo Igwe
12 May, 2014

The menace of Boko Haram is rooted in the nihilistic philosophy of islamism, not poverty, suffering or neglect.

The Tories want to ban strikes without 50% turnout, yet they accuse others of class war

James Bloodworth
11 May, 2014

If you are simultaneously bashing the unions and slashing welfare, you’re also not in the best position to accuse others of conducting class war.

The elite stands ready to destroy Thailand’s hard won democratic gains

Andrew Spooner
10 May, 2014

What we’re witnessing in Thailand is a slowly unfolding coup d’etat, reports Andrew Spooner.

This week’s most read: Cybernats, Boko Haram and Lib Dem Friends of Palestine

10 May, 2014

The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.

Daniel Hannan is wrong: we don’t need to be poorer to be more equal

James Bloodworth
9 May, 2014

Daniel Hannan has got it wrong (again). A poorer society is less likely to be a more equal society.

How legal aid cuts will hit politicians locally

Christopher Sykes
9 May, 2014

Christopher Sykes looks at how cuts to legal aid could impact local politicians.

  • ← Older posts
  • Newer posts →
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.