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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

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Latest Posts

Rightly or wrongly, profit and big business *are* dirty words to the electorate

James Bloodworth
2 October, 2013

Launching a triumphalist defence of the very entities the public increasingly feel they are being ripped off by may please your average strident Thatcherite, but it’s unlikely to go down anywhere near as well outside of the conference hall.

This attempt to move the Tories leftward is a sign that Labour’s message is hitting home

James Elliott
2 October, 2013

If some Tories feel they can’t move further rightwards than mass housebuilding, higher minimum wages and tough corporate regulations, then wouldn’t their triumph really represent a triumph for Labour and social democracy?

The climate crisis – another reason to stop the City

Nick Dearden
1 October, 2013

Climate crisis is being fuelled by unregulated finance.

Is it possible to be a Tory and a trade unionist?

Carl Packman
1 October, 2013

To the question of whether one can be a Conservative and a trade unionist, the answer is of course yes. But perhaps in the same way that a turkey can theoretically vote for Christmas.

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James Bloodworth
1 October, 2013

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

‘The man who hated Britain’: why there was a lot to hate about 1940s Britain

James Bloodworth
1 October, 2013

Five things any right minded person SHOULD have hated about 1940s Britain.

Welsh NHS not for sale, says first minister

Ed Jacobs
1 October, 2013

Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has used his first press briefing following the Summer recess to launch a robust defence of the NHS in Wales.

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30 September, 2013

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

Cameron denies crisis at Stormont

Ed Jacobs
30 September, 2013

David Cameron has been forced to deny that there is a political crisis at Stormont.

Who benefits from a freeze in fuel duty?

James Bloodworth
30 September, 2013

Just who benefits from the freeze on fuel duty announced by chancellor George Osborne today?

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