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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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 (3 days ago)

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Economic arguments will not persuade a sceptical public about the merits of immigration

Jill Rutter
7 April, 2014

Most of the UK-born do not see immigration in terms of its economic benefits, writes Jill Rutter.

Don’t cheer too loudly if Clegg gets a hammering in the Euro Elections

James Bloodworth
7 April, 2014

Labour should worry if Nick Clegg goes. The likelihood of a strong Lib Dem General Election performance would be greatly enhanced by a new – left-leaning – leader.

Hain calls for end to Troubles prosecutions

Ed Jacobs
7 April, 2014

Former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has argued that all crimes related to the troubles that have not yet been solved should be left like that.

Afghanistan is not ready to be abandoned

James Snell
7 April, 2014

Leaving Afghanistan because of domestic political pressure would be deeply wrong, writes James Snell.

Britain still needs a pay rise

Frances O'Grady
6 April, 2014

Britain badly needs a pay rise, right across the board.

Labour is not losing support because left-wing policies are unpopular: it’s losing support because they are

Salman Shaheen
6 April, 2014

If Labour wants to reverse its declining poll ratings, it shouldn’t be trying to fight the Tories for the centre-right ground.

Euro Unions demand: end austerity and put industry back to work

Tony Burke
5 April, 2014

European manufacturing and industrial unions met in Madrid this week at a specially convened conference to discuss the crisis in European industry.

Order has not been restored in Egypt: a reply to the Telegraph’s Con Coughlin

Daniel Wickham
4 April, 2014

The Telegraph’s defence editor is spinning hard for the Egyptian generals, writes Daniel Wickham.

Fiscal arguments ‘of the head’ are not always the best way of defending immigration

Gabriella Jozwiak
4 April, 2014

Gabriella Jozwiak reports from the Migrant’s Rights Network event last night on young people’s attitude to immigration.

Atheists are now the terrorists in Saudi Arabia. You couldn’t make it up

Aaron Peters
4 April, 2014

The world’s number one exporter of Wahabi jihadis considers atheists its foremost terrorism concern.

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