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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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‘Most teachers and nurses I know had NO time for themselves, let alone having a piss up after work like Michael Fabricant is suggesting, with his stiff wig.’

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Tories rallied to defend Boris Johnson as it was revealed that he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak had been fined by police.

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EXCLUSIVE: Tory councillor said Islam ‘is the enemy’ and that it ‘will have to be defeated’

Basit Mahmood
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Councillor Gary Talbot, from Stourport Town Council, tweeted: “Islam is the enemy within England, and it will have to be defeated within England, by the English”.

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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be fined for attending parties during lockdown

Basit Mahmood
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So far, a total of more than 50 fines have been handed for Covid law-breaking in government buildings.

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