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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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Investing in early action is fiscally responsible as well as socially just

Will Horwitz
15 October, 2013

A government that looked at least ten years ahead would surely operate differently, investing more now and saving more later.

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15 October, 2013

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

Are 1 in 10 on the dole really immigrants?

James Bloodworth
15 October, 2013

The Sun should use language that reflects reality, not their readers’ prejudices.

Turn RBS into a network of community banks, based on the German model

Carl Packman
15 October, 2013

To turn RBS into a network of community banks, looking at German Sparkassen for inspiration, would be a step closer to the kind of relational finance our communities desperately need.

Today’s inflation figures: most people still getting poorer

James Bloodworth
15 October, 2013

Yet again inflation has outpaced wages as figures realeased today by the Office for National Statistics show the Consumer Price Index at 2.7 per cent – unchanged from August.

The North East must close its digital connectivity gaps

Luke Raikes
15 October, 2013

Digital connectivity is an essential asset for businesses and a profound catalyst of social and economic change.

Alliance Boots ‘fleecing Britain’ as it avoids £1.1 billion in tax

James Bloodworth
15 October, 2013

Pharmacy chain Alliance Boots has been accused of “fleecing Britain” as a report out today reveals that the company has avoided over a billion pounds in tax in the past six years.

Britain is failing to protect minority women

Lejla Kuric
14 October, 2013

Attempts to address human rights abuses within minority communities is too often met with accusations of bigotry.

The European far-right is growing. And not for the reasons you think

James Bloodworth
14 October, 2013

The far-right in Europe is winning support by combining anti-immigration rhetoric with a populist economic agenda.

Are free schools really more popular in Labour areas?

Annie Powell
14 October, 2013

Recently The Telegraph reported that more free schools have been set up in areas controlled by Labour than any other political party.

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