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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks 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 weeks ago)

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COP26
Opinion

How the Labour Party can include the working classes in a just climate transition

Nick Harvey
21 August, 2023

‘Labour can demonstrate that there is another way, and make a just transition a central plank of its environmental policy platform’

Voting Ballot Box
News

55% of voters say they could change their vote before the election, showing no room for complacency

Basit Mahmood
21 August, 2023

Only 45% say they have completely settled on who to vote for.

Children living in poverty

State of Child Poverty report shows ‘catastrophic’ impact of cost-of-living crisis on families

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 August, 2023

The government is being urged to act immediately to support struggling families by lifting the two-child Universal Credit limit and introducing an Essentials Guarantee.

Rees-mogg

GB News’ poll claiming public support for politician presenters labelled ‘biased’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 August, 2023

“Independent poll commissioned by GB News…. The station with four Tory MPs – could not be more biased if you paid for it….,”

Languages

Spectator criticised for arguing drop in language students has ‘nothing to do with Brexit’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 August, 2023

“If it isn’t Brexit, then it must be the Tories? There are NO other options with which to blame anything on.”

‘Lionesses don’t deserve a bank holiday’ Telegraph column proves extent of gender discrimination in football

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 August, 2023

‘Dented male pride…. Get over it and grow a pair.’

Jacob Rees-Mogg
News

Voters want Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg banned from second jobs on GB News and Talk TV, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
18 August, 2023

Voters have had enough…

Canary Wharf
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Body Snatchers: How the 1% took over Britain

Prem Sikka
18 August, 2023

Prem Sikka argues that all major political parties now represent the 1%

News

CWU calls for ‘heads to roll’ over ‘clear failings’ in Post Office bonus scandal

Hannah Davenport
18 August, 2023

Large bonus payouts to company bosses ‘unjustified from the outset’

A level results
News

A level results reveal widening gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students

Basit Mahmood
18 August, 2023

‘Initial data show some worrying trends for educational inequality, with potential long-term implications for social mobility.’

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