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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 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 (2 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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Latest Posts

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

Basit Mahmood
4 May, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Green Party activists standing with a party banner

Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands

Jenny Jones
4 May, 2022

‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’

Refugees

The Nationality and Borders Bill has passed, what now?

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
4 May, 2022

Analysis from the Refugee Council predicts more than 19,000 people a year fleeing war, conflict, and bloodshed could face years in UK prisons for attempting to find safety.

Boris Johnson speaking at a desk

Boris Johnson pictured campaigning with Tory councillor linked to ‘furlough fraud’

Basit Mahmood
4 May, 2022

In March, North Tyneside Conservatives were accused of abusing the furlough scheme

Why James Delingpole and Maajid Nawaz’s event for vaccine sceptics should worry us

John Lubbock
3 May, 2022

The conspiracy theory-promoting event was attended by figures like Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson and John Mappin.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson embarrasses himself in car crash interview discussing cost of living crisis

Basit Mahmood
3 May, 2022

Asked if he was honest, Johnson said he does his ‘best to represent faithfully and accurately what I believe.’

Mark Steyn

GB News presenter makes false claim about booster vaccine deaths

Basit Mahmood
3 May, 2022

‘He is wrong to claim the booster “increases your chances of hospitalisation and death”. 

Rishi Sunak

As the cost of living crisis bites, we must call time on the vandalism of Tory austerity

Amelia Womack
3 May, 2022

It’s a shocking tragedy that in one of the richest countries in the world, nearly one in ten parents say they’re very likely to need to use a food bank in the coming months.

Voting Ballot Box

Local Elections 2022: What can we expect?

Mike Buckley
3 May, 2022

Labour will need to take next week’s results in their stride. Yet there are trends to watch.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Democracy dismembered

John Lubbock
2 May, 2022

Scandal engulfs the Tory party as they push through a raft of authoritarian legislation.

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