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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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Users flee from Elon Musk’s X: 60,000 people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2024

The exodus continues…

A banner dropped on Westminster Bridge reading "#EndFossilFuels - Fast, fair, forever"
News

Over three-quarters of UK universities exclude investments in fossil fuel companies

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2024

‘115 (out of 149) UK universities have now publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, representing 77% of the UK Higher Education sector’

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"
Opinion

The degrowth agenda is a political dead end masquerading as environmental salvation

Chris Worrall
2 December, 2024

Let’s build the future we want to see, not destroy it.

Assisted dying
Opinion

As a GP here’s why I feel conflicted about the Assisted Dying Bill

Shabina Qayyum
2 December, 2024

As a politician, I want nothing more than a fair and accessible society for all. However, as stated above, I fear the implications for my profession.

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News

Paul Mason slams Elon Musk’s ‘plan’ to make $100m donation to Reform UK

Olivia Barber
2 December, 2024

‘Well good luck with that, because I think last time I saw, Musk was a United States citizen so to give it [the donation] to Reform would be illegal’

Brexit
News

EXCLUSIVE: Voters want closer ties to the European Union, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2024

The poll findings come after Trump’s win in the U.S. election, with many urging the Labour government to adopt a closer trading relationship with the EU following Trump’s intentions to engage in a trade war.

Nigel Farage on GB News
News

GB News blew £100,000 getting rid of ‘woke’ gender neutral toilets after posting an operating loss of £42.4 million

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2024

Bosses at the channel are reported to have been so furious at the “woke” bathrooms at their Paddington studio that they spent eye-watering sums to “fix” them.

News

Disability campaigners criticise rail company’s ‘stealth’ ticket office cuts plan

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

‘This is not a minor change, it is a significant one, and the proposed changes need to be urgently U-turned.’

Right-Wing Watch

‘Christmas cancelled’: The growing influence of US Christian right on UK politics and media

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

Tune into GB News (if you dare), and you’d swear Christmas was on the brink of collapse, with its flood of headlines about “banned carols,” Santa volunteers being “sacked,” and “Christian outrage” over drag performances.

energy bills
News

Government urged to launch urgent plan for upgrading heat-leaking homes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

The ‘government needs to go “much further and fast” on its forthcoming Warm Homes Plan’

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