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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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COP26
News

How the Sun’s anti-net zero campaign is linked to a lobby group funded by the freight and haulage industry

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

What the Sun also fails to mention is that its five-point manifesto bears a striking resemblance to the ‘five core campaign objectives’ of FairFuelUK

Cartoons not Cruelty

Cartoons not cruelty: Calls grow to restore cartoons at children’s asylum centres

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

Artists are on standby, offering to paint the cartoons back in at no expense to the taxpayer.

Bibby Stockholm

Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

Brexit paperwork

Government data confirms Brexit as a main driver of exports decline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

More than a third of businesses say their prospects for growth in 2023 have been hampered by a decline in demand for British goods because of Brexit.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of spreading ‘fake history’ while mocking civil service growth

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

The former Brexit opportunities minister has been slammed for comments he made on his GB News show about colonialism.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Labour must make democratic renewal a central reforming agenda for its first term in power

Grace Barnett
11 August, 2023

‘The hard thinking has been done, the case has been made within the party, and the British public is crying out for change.’

Junior doctor
News

Junior Doctor roasts Tories for making the NHS among the worst health systems in Europe

Basit Mahmood
11 August, 2023

It comes as NHS waiting lists reach a record 7.6million.

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Opinion

How the UK can learn from Finland’s Housing First Policy

Kerrie Portman
11 August, 2023

If the UK wants to learn how to work towards ending homelessness, they can turn to Finland and their Housing First policy, initially introduced in 2008

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News

Tory MP failed to declare shares in Shell while environment secretary

Basit Mahmood
11 August, 2023

‘Ms Villiers deeply regrets her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings and has offered her sincere apologies.’

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News

Daily Mail is the least-trusted news outlet among MPs

Basit Mahmood
10 August, 2023

Even among Tory MPs, the Mail gets negative ratings

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