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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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News

‘Sun will close in 6 years’ says former editor blaming ‘lefty activists’

Basit Mahmood
24 November, 2022

“I was told last week that the management of News UK had looked at the circulation decline of the Sun over the year…

Climate change
Opinion

Why the left needs to set out the case for climate optimism

Grace Pengelly
24 November, 2022

‘There is increasing cause for optimism when it comes to averting the worst effects of the climate crisis.’

COP26
Opinion

COP27 is a failure the world cannot afford

Mike Buckley
24 November, 2022

Climate change will not wait for us to act. Every week, month and year we delay the ambitious and unavoidable action we need to take to prevent runaway climate breakdown, the harder it becomes to achieve.

Mick Lynch
News

Mick Lynch completely destroys the Daily Mail yet again

Basit Mahmood
24 November, 2022

“These are the same newspapers that will support the most reactionary elements in our society and indeed the Daily Mail, they supported Adolf Hitler”

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Opinion

What a small Ukrainian city can teach us about how to build thriving communities

Natalie Bennett
23 November, 2022

This is an important lesson about surviving adversity, building local communities and thriving.

PPE
News

Government spends £770,000 a day to store PPE items in China

Basit Mahmood
23 November, 2022

“This is absolutely astonishing. £770,000 a day, £280 million a year? What a waste of money which could be used to invest in our NHS.”

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News

Unite calls on Ofgem to cap power distributors’ profits after ‘rampant profiteering’

Basit Mahmood
23 November, 2022

Distribution network operators have higher profit margins than any other sector in the UK, and expects operators to register profit margins of more than 50% in 2022.

Polling station

80 Tory MPs could decide not to stand in next general election

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 November, 2022

As the deadline for standing in the 2024 election gets closer, a report shows the Conservative Party may be braced for a mass exodus of MPs.

Cost of living
News

Over half of Britons say Tories are largely responsible for cost of living crisis, polling shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 November, 2022

As the government is accused of shielding the super-rich, 51 percent of people believe the Conservative government is largely to blame for the cost of living crisis.

Mick Lynch

Mick Lynch takes down Daily Mail reporter with typically cool response to ‘Mick Grinch’ nickname

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 November, 2022

The RMT boss is back flooring critics in the corporate media with his no-nonsense, down-to-earth attitude.

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