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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)

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The government must take responsibility on food poverty

George Gillett
13 January, 2014

The government should provide a non-profit, partially subsidised alternative alongside supermarkets.

Shares for rights scheme ‘a big flop’

Tony Burke
12 January, 2014

Osborne has found it difficult to get employers’ organisations to back the scheme.

EU and UK politicians need to grasp the integration nettle

Ipek Gencsu
11 January, 2014

Politicians must engage with the social and cultural impact of migration flows, rather than endlessly debating economic issues.

Are Cameron’s porn filters ineffective?

Ghaffar Hussain
10 January, 2014

The internet filters touted by Cameron have blocked sites such as the Lib Dems’ own LGBT site.

This week’s most read: Benefits Street, unqualified teachers and cannabis

10 January, 2014

The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.

European commissioner is right: we can not let populism win ahead of facts on immigration

Ranjit Sidhu
10 January, 2014

Vivane Reding, vice-president of the European commission, stated in a web chat last night that in the UK there is a perception of an “invasion of foreigners” coming to the UK to “steal jobs”.

Postal strike

Royal Mail sell-off: taxpayer short changed…according to Vince Cable

James Bloodworth
10 January, 2014

The taxpayer may have been shortchanged to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds by the sale of the Royal Mail, according to markers laid down by Vince Cable back in October.

What exactly is a ‘Muslim baby’?

James Bloodworth
10 January, 2014

How exactly did the Times manage to discern that the children in question were believers.

What’s gone wrong on London’s roads?

Darren Johnson
9 January, 2014

Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists now account for over three quarters of the casualties on London’s roads.

Qualified teachers: the Labour policy that makes Tories unfathomably angry

Annie Powell
9 January, 2014

You wouldn’t think that a policy requiring all teachers to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) would be particularly controversial.

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