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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 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 (3 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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Basit Mahmood
22 June, 2022

‘Others should study his techniques’

Boris Johnson

Dinner with Boris Johnson sells for £120,000 as rich Tory donors splash cash at party’s summer ball

Basit Mahmood
21 June, 2022

An African safari trip sold for £65,000 while a shooting weekend went for £37,000 and wine tasting for £30,000, along with a Chelsea vs. Arsenal tickets for £5,000.

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Tory hypocrisy: Number 10 planning to tear up restrictions on City bosses’ pay while urging pay restraint for rest of us

Basit Mahmood
21 June, 2022

“Everyone counts or nobody counts.”

rmt

Biggest rail strikes in 30 years go ahead as RMT slams government for ‘telling a pack of lies’

Basit Mahmood
21 June, 2022

‘The rail companies have now proposed pay rates that are massively under the relevant rates of inflation’

10 Downing Street

Downing Street admits pressuring The Times to drop explosive Carrie Johnson story

Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2022

Downing Street has admitted that members of the Prime Minister’s team intervened before an explosive story about his wife Carrie Johnson was withdrawn from publication in The Times.

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Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2022

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Accusations of a ‘cover up’ after Times pull damning story about Boris Johnson and Carrie

Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2022

The piece, written by veteran journalist Simon Walters, claimed that Johnson tried to appoint his now-wife Carrie as his £100,000-a-year chief of staff while he was foreign secretary in 2018

Michael Gove

Michael Gove faces backlash over new law ‘re-criminalising’ rough sleeping

Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2022

“They want to conceal the consequences of their failing economic policies.”

David Davis

Brexit-inflicted crisis on Ireland will ‘take a decade’ to solve, says David Davis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 June, 2022

Former Brexit minister, who famously said there “would be no Brexit downsides”, admits benefits espoused by the Leave campaign have yet to materialise and Ireland will take years to recover from the protocol crisis.

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Predatory financing of care homes has led to the sector being stripped to the bones in the name of profit

Christine Corlet Walker
17 June, 2022

Predatory financing of the care sector is also driving poor outcomes for workers and service users.

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