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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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John Lubbock
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Sir Roger Gale accused Johnson of “pantomime performance”

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Basit Mahmood
20 April, 2022

The Church of England’s head of news John Bingham said if the reports of Mr Johnson’s behind-closed-doors comment were true it was a “disgraceful slur”

Starmer

Keir Starmer slams Tory claims that Boris Johnson’s Partygate fine is as minor as a speeding ticket

Basit Mahmood
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“I also think that the pathetic display of Tory MPs going out to defend the indefensible is something that they will be ashamed of.”

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Mike Buckley: What Russia’s war on Ukraine could mean for the future of climate change

Mike Buckley
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‘Ask any climate scientist, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Getting the world off fossil fuels must be a much bigger priority than it is now.’

Tory minister Brandon Lewis condemned after comparing Boris Johnson’s Covid fine to a parking ticket

Basit Mahmood
19 April, 2022

Delusional

The Institute of Economic Affairs is promoting NHS privatisation again

John Lubbock
15 April, 2022

IEA’s Head of Media said the British public was out of love with the NHS and recommended “market based reforms”.

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HMRC

Prof Prem Sikka: Tax legislation in the UK benefits the interests of the rich

Prem Sikka
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‘UK governments are dressed-up in the garbs of democracy, but continue to privilege the interests of wealthy elites and footloose capital.’

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