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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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
Today

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Latest Posts

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The government has no ambition and no vision for investing in the UK’s infrastructure

Prem Sikka
10 June, 2022

The government has handed £895bn to speculators but can only find £12bn for infrastructure development.

Johnson in Blackpool

Johnson makes high-wage economy U-turn as calls for £15 minimum wage grow

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 June, 2022

The PM’s comments for workers to accept pay cuts or UK faces 1970s-style ‘stagflation’, have been blasted as ‘nonsense.’

Liz Truss

Cabinet tensions flare over government plans to shred Northern Ireland protocol

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 June, 2022

Tories descend further into chaos in tense protocol talks.

We should ensure every young person can access high quality music education

Ben Cooper
9 June, 2022

‘Too often, schools are charging young people for teaching and instrument hire that, in many cases, is necessary for the national curriculum or required to pass GCSE and A-level music’.

Number of children eligible for free school meals rises to nearly 2 million

Basit Mahmood
9 June, 2022

Data reveals that over the last three years, the number of children eligible for Free School Meals has increased by a shocking 49%.

UK economy will fall behind all major economies except Russia, OECD warns

Basit Mahmood
9 June, 2022

The UK will be the worst performing economy of any nation in the developed world apart from Russia in 2023

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, June 2022

Basit Mahmood
8 June, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a rally

Former YouGov staffer retracts claim he was ‘banned’ from releasing 2017 general election polling

Chris Jarvis
8 June, 2022

UPDATE: Chris Curtis has since issued a clarification on the claims he made regarding YouGov’s polling during the 2017 general election.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson taken to task over failing the NHS

Basit Mahmood
8 June, 2022

“24 hours in A&E used to be a TV programme,” he said. “Now it’s the Government’s policy”.

Diane Abbott: Boris Johnson’s crisis also means we have to step up the struggle against racism

Diane Abbott
8 June, 2022

‘When the government finds itself in difficulties as a result of its own policies, it resorts to xenophobic and outright racist measures’

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