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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 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 (3 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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Covid Inquiry: Ministers opposed masks in schools as they ‘didn’t want to give an inch to unions’

Hannah Davenport
31 October, 2023

“In a time of national crisis the Conservatives put politics before people.”

Andy McDonald
News

Andy McDonald: Fury over left wing MP’s suspension from Labour

Chris Jarvis
31 October, 2023

McDonald was suspended from Labour for saying: “We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.”

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Tories plan Halloween general election

Basit Mahmood
30 October, 2023

“A fitting end to this horror show.”

Rishi Sunak
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Rishi Sunak spent £43,000 of taxpayer cash on VIP jets and choppers

Basit Mahmood
30 October, 2023

That included 20 domestic flights on RAF planes and helicopters in his first 11 months in charge.

Brexit and EU
News

BBC Question Time audience member takes apart the supposed ‘freedoms of Brexit’

Basit Mahmood
30 October, 2023

The scathing criticism came after the Tory government’s decision to scrap the cap on bankers’ bonuses which was portrayed as a ‘Brexit freedom’.

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Asylum seekers face homelessness as government shuts refugee hotels

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2023

‘Instead of being a moment of celebration, receiving refugee status is, for far too many, currently a ticket to homelessness with the cost being passed on to councils.’

Rishi Sunak
Opinion

One year of Rishi Sunak: The PM’s biggest U-turns and broken promises

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2023

From Net Zero to EU law, here are the biggest reversals of policy and promises we have seen Sunak make in just 12 months.

Right-Wing Watch

How the Tories, inspired by Republicans, have fixed the voting system in their favour

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 October, 2023

Our ancestors fought hard for our democratic rights. They would turn in their graves if they saw the state of Britain’s warped electoral system today.

News

Almost one million people unite in support for human rights in the Israel-Palestine crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 October, 2023

The movement is calling for an immediate ceasefire.

News

Piers Morgan gets repeatedly grilled by pro-Palestine guests on his ‘Uncensored’ show

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 October, 2023

‘Lowkey has just destroyed Piers Morgan. We love to see this.’

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