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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Black supremacist music: a reaction to historical oppression, or something more sinister?

Matt Broomfield
16 November, 2013

Don’t gloss over the ugliness of black supremacist music but don’t condemn the entire cultural movement out of hand.

This week’s most read: The Tories and YouTube, Grant Shapps, and cycling deaths

15 November, 2013

The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.

UK still has joint highest inflation in EU

James Bloodworth
15 November, 2013

Inflation in Britain is the joint highest in the EU, according to a relase out today from the statistics office of the European Union.

Sorry Guido, but the Tories really are presiding over a cost of living crisis

James Bloodworth
15 November, 2013

Sorry Guido, but there really is a cost of living crisis and it’s getting worse under a Tory government.

Lamont hails day of truth from Scottish government on currency union

Ed Jacobs
15 November, 2013

The Scottish government must set out the conditions it would be prepared to accept in order to secure its ambitions of an independent Scotland remaining in a currency union with the rest of the UK.

I warned Boris that his policies would lead to more cycling deaths

Jenny Jones
14 November, 2013

Roads in London are safer than they were twelve years ago, but they have become more dangerous since Boris was elected.

Look Left going out shortly – sign up to receive it by email

14 November, 2013

Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

It’s never been more fashionable to demonise social housing tenants

Kevin Gulliver
14 November, 2013

If there is a ‘dependency culture’ it exists in the banking and privatised utility sectors.

To tackle in-work poverty, start with second earners

Spencer Thompson
14 November, 2013

It will be difficult to reduce levels of child poverty in the UK without a concerted effort to increase the employment rate of workless partners.

Carmichael takes on nationalist twitter trolls

Ed Jacobs
14 November, 2013

The Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael has attacked the leadership of the SNP for emboldening nationalist twitter trolls.

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