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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)

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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Basit Mahmood
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Basit Mahmood
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‘So facts don’t matter’.

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Labour’s biggest union donor, Unite, warns of ‘serious consequences’

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Basit Mahmood
6 June, 2023

Stewart was filmed last year telling a Bahraini dissident who was imprisoned and tortured for his human rights activism in the country to ‘go back to Bahrain’

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Basit Mahmood
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Nigel Farage
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Basit Mahmood
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“The grifter keep on grifting … why am I not surprised.”

Mick Lynch
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Mick Lynch makes journalists look clueless yet again

Basit Mahmood
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‘If I have a strike and nobody knows it’s happened and it’s had no effect whatsoever, I’m wasting my members’’ time’

£10 notes pegged to a washing line
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Lord Rennard
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We need to change the regulation of Party Finance, says Lib Dem Peer Lord Rennard.

NHS strikes

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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 ‘Nursing staff are fighting for their patients, and the very future of our NHS – not just for their pay.’

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