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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week 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 (1 week 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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Suella Braverman
News

Eye-watering cost of sending each migrant to Rwanda revealed

Basit Mahmood
27 June, 2023

If the government wants to break even on the Rwanda scheme, it would need to deter about 37% of people from crossing the Channel

Nurses strike
News

Breaking: Nurses’ union vows to fight on for fair pay despite not reaching strike mandate threshold

Hannah Davenport
27 June, 2023

‘We have started something special – the voice of nursing has never been stronger and we’re going to keep using it’

Brendan Clarke-Smith
News

Union leader condemns Tory MP and former teacher following outrage over Tweet

Hannah Davenport
27 June, 2023

‘Teachers would never behave like this’

baby
Opinion

Parents with babies and toddlers deserve a government that protects family time

Ben Cooper
27 June, 2023

Instead of the current, weak entitlement to unpaid leave, fathers and partners should be allowed to take paid leave for four antenatal appointments

Mick Lynch speaking at a rally

RMT threatens ‘full industrial force of the union’ amid ticket office closure rumours

Hannah Davenport
27 June, 2023

Mick Lynch said his union won’t ‘meekly sit by’

Sadiq Khan
News

Sadiq Khan responds to speculation Boris Johnson will run to be Mayor of London

Basit Mahmood
26 June, 2023

The Financial Times has reported that Johnson could look to get his old job back in City Hall

Helen Whatley
News

Tory minister in car crash interview over NHS pay row

Basit Mahmood
26 June, 2023

Health Minister Helen Whately appeared not to know how pay review bodies worked

Brexit and EU
News

Voters ashamed of leaving the EU, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
26 June, 2023

The poll findings are yet more evidence of how disillusioned the public is with Brexit.

Right-Wing Watch

How is GB News really doing?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 June, 2023

The right-wing network’s growing audience sadly proves there is an appetite for angry, red-faced, white men shouting at the screens about Meghan Markle and immigrants.

Right-wing press continues witch-hunt on ‘woke’ Derbyshire school

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2023

The deliberately provocative reporting comes as a new report shows that anti-drag sentiment is becoming mainstream in the UK, as US-style culture wars escalate.

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