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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 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 (4 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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Latest Posts

News

Less than one in ten believe more gas and oil production will reduce energy bills – poll

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 October, 2023

‘Approving Rosebank is an act of economic vandalism which only serves the fossil fuel industry and is woefully out of touch with public opinion.’

Gordon Brown
News

Gordon Brown reiterates calls to rejoin European Union

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 October, 2023

‘Many voted to stay in the European Union and feel very frustrated we are outside it.’

Birmingham
News

Cash-starved councils forced to abandon green projects that would reduce energy costs for households and businesses

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 September, 2023

‘After thirteen years of austerity, local authorities just don’t have the resources to devote to applying for funding for non-statutory duties such as climate change work.’

Right-Wing Watch

Making babies – the Right’s latest bright idea

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 September, 2023

Orbán-style birthrate populism with nasty racist undertones has arrived in Britain. How worried should we be?

News

Criticism grows over Lee Anderson’s £100,000 GB News’ job in wake of Laurence Fox misogyny scandal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 September, 2023

‘At some point the government party might have to give the fact its deputy chair appears on this channel some consideration.’

COP26
News

‘Embarrassingly wrong’ Tufton Street Net Zero report gets extensive coverage in right-wing press

Basit Mahmood
29 September, 2023

The claims contained in the report were fact checked by a number of climate academics and journalists who explained why they were wrong.

students
Opinion

Why the government must abolish tuition fees and write off student debt

Prem Sikka
29 September, 2023

‘The aim was to shift state expenditure and debt on to low and middle income households, and create space for tax cuts for corporations and the rich’

Jeremy Hunt
News

Every Tory cabinet member who is set to lose their seat according to the latest polls

Chris Jarvis
29 September, 2023

Six cabinet members are set to be booted out of parliament

Rishi Sunak speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons at PMQs
News

‘It’s a Yes or a No’: Rishi Sunak humiliated on BBC Radio Manchester Over HS2

Basit Mahmood
28 September, 2023

“We are straight talking people in the north, so yes or no”

Caroline Nokes
News

Tory MP says GB News should be taken off air

Basit Mahmood
28 September, 2023

‘If we as parliament aren’t happy with the regulations that are set, then maybe we should be tightening them up.’

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