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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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Latest Posts

Zimbabwe 2013: Elections and legitimacy

Tony Dykes
24 July, 2013

Zimbabwe will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 31 July 2013.

‘The world’s gone mad’ – Institute of Directors on Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme

James Bloodworth
24 July, 2013

Yesterday was probably a good day to bury bad news. It was also very probably an opportune moment to promote a bad policy in the hope that it would slip under the radar of those with critical voices.

The Royal Baby – media round-up

Ed Jacobs
24 July, 2013

Across the nations this morning many people will be celebrating the birth of a future monarch – the as yet unnamed baby Cambridge.

The devastating impact of moving school revealed

Joe Hallgarten
23 July, 2013

Moving school during the year rarely catches the headlines, but matters hugely to outcomes, especially to those who move many times.

Unite the Union

The unions and the Labour will just have to work harder to win the support of working people

James Bloodworth
23 July, 2013

According to a poll by Lord Ashcroft, a majority of Unite members don’t feel they are well represented by Ed Miliband.

Abortion: How about some evidence-based blogging?

23 July, 2013

We were disappointed to read the evidence free and emotive piece published on this site last week by Marko Atilla Hoare.

The Tory plans to keep quiet in Scotland

Ed Jacobs
23 July, 2013

The Conservative Party has outlined its plans on how to increase the number of seats it holds in Scotland by pledging to keep its head down and keep quiet.

The new Prince and his 2,000 birthday buddies

Emily Harle
23 July, 2013

Though their names, weights and times of birth were not announced to the world’s media, just over 2,000 other children in the UK have one thing in common with the new Prince: their date of birth.

I wish Kate and William well, but there is still too much inequality in childbirth

Matthew Prior
22 July, 2013

A Royal baby is on the way as Kate goes into Labour today. The media gather outside of St Mary’s Hospital in London in anticipation of whether it is a boy or a girl.

US-EU trade talks – what about the workers?

Tony Burke
22 July, 2013

During the recent G8 Summit in Belfast, David Cameron said the time had come to ‘press ahead’ with the EU-US free trade deal, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

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