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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks 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 (2 weeks 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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Protestors spray paint Glasgow university building over investment in Israeli arms firms

Olivia Barber
7 February, 2025

The University of Glasgow has £6.8 million in shares in arms companies such as BAE systems and QinetiQ.

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Tories have held ‘top-secret talks’ on merger with Farage’s Reform UK

Basit Mahmood
7 February, 2025

“Some Tories have concluded that as the election gets closer, the situation could get worse for them. Better to form an alliance sooner rather than later.”

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Top 5 union wins over the last month

Olivia Barber
7 February, 2025

From succeeding at the latest stage of 10-year Asda equal pay claim to Stagecoach drivers getting an 11% pay rise, unions have been winning

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Reform UK’s Blenheim Palace festival in chaos after falling foul of charity law

Basit Mahmood
7 February, 2025

‘Nigel Farage’s party has had to beat a hasty retreat after stumbling into an aristocratic feud and risking a tangle over charity law’.

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Conservative Lord accused of ‘staggering u-turn’ on renters’ rights

Olivia Barber
7 February, 2025

Renters’ Reform Coalition analysis found that one in three peers scheduled to speak in the debate were landlords themselves

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Local council pension funds investing billions in companies ‘enabling Israel’s genocide’

Olivia Barber
6 February, 2025

‘Divestment from Israel’s crimes is a moral and legal imperative that cannot be ignored’

Clamping down on benefit fraudsters preserves the principle of a welfare state

Chris Worrall
6 February, 2025

We have a moral imperative to preserve the welfare system, ensure it is sufficiently funded and its distribution works more effectively.

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Labour MPs set up parliamentary group to tackle threat of Reform UK

Basit Mahmood
6 February, 2025

MPs representing the 89 constituencies where Reform came second in last year’s election have formed an informal caucus to counter the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s party

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Kemi Badenoch told Conservative Party staff to ‘do better’

Olivia Barber
6 February, 2025

With the Tories slipping into third place in the polls, Badenoch called on party staff to raise their game.

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Nigel Farage and Richard Tice caught nodding at PMQs when Keir Starmer says Reform UK want to replace free NHS with insurance-based model

Basit Mahmood
6 February, 2025

Under Labour the NHS will always be free at the point of use for anybody who needs it.”

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