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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days 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 days 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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Olivia Barber
27 October, 2025

‘Guess we now know why Farage seems to make only cameo appearances in Parliament and Clacton’

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Wes Streeting slams Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments as racist

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2025

“What we have seen is a return of 1970s and 1980s-style racism I thought we had left in the history books.

Sarah Pochin on TalkTV
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MPs are calling for Pochin to be suspended

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 October, 2025

“The reality is that young people are finding the finances very, very difficult.”

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26 October, 2025

Holding two key ministerial posts and pushing substantive reforms, particularly in pensions, the MP for Swansea West is making some on the right nervous.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 October, 2025

“This is what GB News considers news.”

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 October, 2025

The legendary vegetable has been formally recognised as a part of British cultural history.

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The new immigration hot potato: How the ECHR was hijacked by the right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 October, 2025

We should have learned from Brexit, which weakened Britain in every sense. Now the same voices want to abandon the ECHR. We know where that road will lead.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 October, 2025

“Is this an AI hallucination?”

Keir Starmer
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Alba Kapoor
24 October, 2025

We must demand an end to these shifting political norms

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