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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days 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 (5 days 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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“If nothing changes, if Boris goes and this [party] constitution remains the same, I’m not interested.”

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Richard Caring, the owner of the Ivy restaurant and who is estimated to have a personal fortune of over £1bn, secured permission from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to close part of Onslow Square for two weeks so that he could complete the gardening work.

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