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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 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 (6 days ago)

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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Ed Miliband’s speech: fixing the long-term problems

James Bloodworth
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The key is convincing voters that Miliband has the a better solution than George Osborne without creating a rod for his own back by claiming that he can completely ‘fix’ the economy.

A minimum wage increase is long overdue

James Bloodworth
16 January, 2014

An increase in the minimum wage is long overdue.

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Gloria Roberts
16 January, 2014

The assumption that UKIP is gaining in popularity because of its policies on immigration and Europe has been undermined by new polling.

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Mo Farah: from lefty hero to tax exile in 10 short months

James Bloodworth
16 January, 2014

Last year Mo Farah was calling on the chancellor to crack down on tax avoidance. Now he want to be a tax exile.

Behind cold doors: the chilling reality for children in poverty

Sam Royston
16 January, 2014

Five million families are likely to turn their heating down this winter because they can’t afford to pay for it.

The first place to start on bankers’ pay is that it needs to be lower

Luke Hildyard
16 January, 2014

Does anyone deserve to make sums of money so far in excess of what the majority of UK workers earn?

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David Hirsh
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The Quenelle openly refers to Nazism, but its link to Nazism and antisemitism is also vigorously denied.

Why the government is resorting to increasingly desperate measures on fracking

Jane Thomas
15 January, 2014

People are right to still be concerned about fracking.

Left Foot Forward forces Oxfam climbdown over speaker’s homophobic comments

James Bloodworth
15 January, 2014

Oxfam has cancelled an event after Left Foot Forward presented the organisation with homophobic and anti-semitic comments made by one of the organisers.

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