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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 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 (5 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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News

Revealed: Where up to a quarter of your water bill is really going

Chris Jarvis
18 December, 2023

It’s been branded ‘daylight robbery’

Esther McVey

Tory MP Esther McVey ridiculed for absurd Daily Mail front page splash waging ‘war on woke’

Chris Jarvis
18 December, 2023

Esther McVey is not at all clear what she will be waging war on

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News

Tory MP Miriam Cates under investigation by MP’s standards watchdog

Chris Jarvis
18 December, 2023

The right wing culture warrior is being investigated for “actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its Members generally”

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News

The Tories are still planning to force teachers to out trans pupils to parents

Chris Jarvis
18 December, 2023

Government guidance is set to be published this week

News

Using MRIs and X-rays will not help keep refugee children safe, Refugee Council warns

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 December, 2023

As well as ethical concerns, there is no evidence to show that biological methods provide greater certainly of age than the existing holistic age assessment methods.

Right-Wing Watch

Big surprise! – Right now attacking Charles as ‘woke’ King

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 December, 2023

Being green and sharing compassion for refugees, the Right continue to demand that King Charles stays out of politics. But, as with Gary Lineker, the row isn’t really about impartiality, something the Right always takes the moral high ground on, but is another attempt to discredit the decency of progressive values.

Andy Burnham

A new era for English devolution: Greater Manchester to get new ‘Scotland-style’ freedom over finances

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 December, 2023

The single settlement system will change the way the region is able to tackle social issues, taking on a more preventative approach.

News

Government’s Windsor Framework deal described as ‘cataclysmic’ for UK food exports

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 December, 2023

‘A lot of manufacturers will probably just give up on the European market.’

Opinion

Hilarious clip of Rishi Sunak’s lack of memory at the Covid Inquiry goes viral

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 December, 2023

‘He doesn’t recall much, does he?’

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News

Less than 1-in-10 think public services have improved under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
15 December, 2023

The dire poll findings show the sheer scale of dissatisfaction with the Tories, who have vowed to ‘level up the country’, amid rising inequality, poverty and crumbling public services.

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