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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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Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage joins pro-Putin Viktor Orban at conference of U.S conservatives where he will speak about ‘saving the West’

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

Farage will be addressing the same conference at which Orban spoke and on the same theme of ‘saving the West’.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi on holiday as Bank of England warns of recession

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

Labour has accused the pair of being “missing in action” as the full scale of the meltdown facing the UK’s economy became apparent.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, August 2022

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

class pay gap

Earnings gap between those who were on free school meals and privately educated peers revealed

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

Even when those who were on FSM have the same qualification level, educational attainment and labour market experience as their private school peers, FSM students earn 20% less than an independent school student at age of 30.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Ofgem’s energy announcement that could see bills soar more often slammed by fuel poverty campaigners

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

Simon Francis, co-ordinator for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said the decision was “simply inhumane”.

Boris Johnson

Tory members would rather vote for Boris Johnson instead of Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

Clearly Johnson’s lies, law-breaking and trashing of the highest office in the land don’t matter much to the Tory party members.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak’s plan to widen definition of extremism to include people who ‘vilify’ Britain slammed as attack on free speech

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

“It is straying into thought crimes and political opinions.”

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Opinion

Diane Abbott MP: There is a fundamental right to strike and a human rights lawyer should support that

Diane Abbott
3 August, 2022

‘The Labour Party and the labour movement came into being through protest, some of it illegal at the time as our commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs testifies. ‘

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson’s draft honours list includes wife of former Putin minister

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

Lubov Chernukhin is said to have lobbied against higher tax for the ultra-rich and is the largest female donor in British political history, having donated £2 million to the Conservatives from 2012 to 2020.

Sunak and Truss

Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are planning further austerity for schools

Basit Mahmood
2 August, 2022

Spending per pupil in 2024-25 is expected to be 3% lower than in 2010, after costs for schools are taken into account.

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