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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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Latest Posts

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.

Rees-Mogg

‘Frack off’: Rees-Mogg roasted for saying ‘it’s time to start fracking to help reduce prices’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2023

‘Won’t save them money, but may rock their worlds.’

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Opinion

The reasons why the UK economy is at the bottom of the G7 growth table

Prem Sikka
23 June, 2023

We need to invest directly in new industries, promote equitable distribution of income and wealth, reform corporate governance and take action on dead-weights dragging the economy down.

Andrew Bailey

Bank of England governor under fire for blaming inflation on workers’ wage rises

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2023

‘Instead of blaming inflation on workers’ wage rises, it’s high time the governor of the Bank of England tackled the profiteers of corporate Britain.’

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News

Watchdog finds 14,000 people denied from voting due to Tories’ ID policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2023

‘It is an outrage that thousands of people were denied a voice at the local elections because of the Conservative Party’s Voter ID rules.’

Question Time

‘Cowardly’: Key reaction to Question Time ‘Brexit Special’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2023

‘The lowest bunch of gaslighting politicians in history.’

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News

Tories face electoral disaster as rural support plummets

Chris Jarvis
22 June, 2023

Labour are now neck and neck with the Tories in the countryside

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Opinion

Price controls are needed to tackle inflation

Jon Trickett
22 June, 2023

Squeezing working people won’t work. It’s time for price controls.

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News

Thames Water under fire as leaks hit highest level for five years

Chris Jarvis
22 June, 2023

Campaigners have called for water to be taken into public ownership

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