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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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Braverman
News

Pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak over reappointment of Suella Braverman

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

Backlash grows over the prime minister’s decision to reinstall Braverman as home secretary just six days after she was forced out for a security breach.

A photo of a blanket laying on cardboard boxes on a street
News

London Mayor calls for immediate rent freeze as homelessness rises

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

The government is being urged to take decisive action in the autumn statement to invest in housing benefit.

NHS petition

Thousands sign petition urging government for an inflation-matching pay rise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 October, 2022

A petition to the health secretary Steve Barclay to increase pay for NHS workers by 11 percent to match inflation, has amassed more than 80,000 signatures.

No Planet B

MPs call for investigation into potential wrongdoings by climate sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 October, 2022

The cross-party group of MPs are urging the Charity Commission to investigate possible misuse of funds by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan Uncensored attracts more viewers without Piers Morgan

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

You’d think that if a TV show is named after its presenter, that presenter would be its greatest asset, the reason why viewers tune in. Not, it seems, for TalkTV’s flagship evening showcase of debate and un-woke opinions.

Right-Wing Watch

What next, now Rishi Sunak is prime minister?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.

Fair pay for the NHS
News

Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers to ballot on strike action over pay

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

Around 350,000 members of Unison started voting this week on whether to strike over real terms pay cuts.

Nadine Dorries
News

Even Nadine Dorries thinks Rishi Sunak is wrong not to attend COP27 as she clashes with Jacob Rees-Mogg

Basit Mahmood
28 October, 2022

Sunak has also demoted the climate minister, kicking Graham Stuart out of Cabinet.

Opinion

Why is there such little attention paid to corporate corruption that is damaging the UK?

Prem Sikka
28 October, 2022

‘Corporations excel in corrupt practices by funding political parties and legislators to ensure that their interests are prioritised.’

London Museum
Opinion

Action is needed to ensure our arts and cultural organisations do not become the victims of austerity

Ben Cooper
28 October, 2022

With austerity potentially on the horizon, arts and culture organisations must not be the victims of Liz Truss’s failed economic experiment and a misguided austerity response to it.  

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