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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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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2022

A roundup of news from progressive outlets…

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News

Outrage after Shell profits double while millions struggle with cost of living crisis

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2022

The company has reported operating profits of $9.5bn dollars (£8.19bn) which is more than double during the same period in 2021.

Braverman
News

Ex-Tory chair tears into Suella Braverman saying she committed ‘multiple breaches’ of ministerial code

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2022

“From my own knowledge there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code”

Modi
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No free trade deal should be agreed with India until it protects workers’ rights

Tony Burke
27 October, 2022

Indian unions representing 47 million workers are urging the UK to suspend negotiations with Narendra Modi’s government until it respects basic international labour standards.

News

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2022

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

Rishi Sunak
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Rishi Sunak grilled at PMQs for boasting about withdrawing funding from deprived urban areas

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2022

“Rather than apologise or pretend he meant something else, why doesn’t he do the right thing and undo the changes he made to those funding formula?”

Liz Truss
News

Wera Hobhouse MP: Truss is gone, but Trussonomics lives on in a Bill that will destroy independent financial regulation

Wera Hobhouse MP
26 October, 2022

While we have witnessed the drama and turbulence of recent weeks, a process of comparable significance to our economic future has been quietly proceeding in the background.

Sunak
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Rishi Sunak slammed for staggering hypocrisy after reappointing Suella Braverman Home Secretary

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2022

“At noon Rishi Sunak promised “integrity, professionalism & accountability. At 5pm he made Suella Braverman Home Secretary”

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Opinion

Why are the public being made to pay for excessive corporate energy use?

Natalie Bennett
25 October, 2022

‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’

Rees-Mogg
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Jacob Rees-Mogg resigns from government and people are glad to see the back of him

Basit Mahmood
25 October, 2022

“We can only hope he takes his green light for fracking and for trashing hundreds of pieces of EU legislation with him.”

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