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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

Owen Paterson vote

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters think Boris Johnson should’ve sacked Owen Paterson rather than letting him resign

Basit Mahmood
9 November, 2021

57% of Conservative Party voters think Paterson should’ve been fired rather than be allowed to resign, as do 73% of Labour and Liberal Democrat voters and 80% of SNP voters.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

‘The majority of areas left behind by the government’s net zero plans are Tory seats’

Tommy Greene
9 November, 2021

‘Getting to net zero fairly is essential’

Boris Johnson cop26

Wera Hobhouse MP: Tory fossil fuel funding is delaying an end date for fossil fuels

Wera Hobhouse MP
8 November, 2021

‘As long as we have a Government dominated by vested interests, the UK will make no progress on climate action.’

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

The MPs making thousands in extra income who could be affected by a consultancy ban

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2021

Here’s a list of some of the most prominent MPs, mostly Tories, earning thousands in extra income who could be affected by any ban on consultancy work

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"

‘Global warming is not a problem’ says board member of Net Zero Watch which is backed by Tory MPs

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2021

Lord Lawson claims that more CO2 emissions have only served to “warm the planet slightly”

Strikes at universities look likely this side of Christmas

‘More work for less reward’: Academics support strike action in new vote on pension cuts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

University strike dispute intensifies as academics at 37 institutions support industrial action.

Empty supermarket shelves show the true cost of Brexit

Brexit swipes £17bn off UK trade with EU in 3 months – watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

A spending watchdog has confirmed the devastating impact Brexit has had on UK trade with Europe.

Training must be given to support transition to clean energy jobs

#COP26: Transition to clean energy must not come at expense of workers – campaigners warn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 November, 2021

The mistakes of the past cannot be repeated, and workers must be put at the heart of the transition to green energy, COP26 leaders are told.

Kwasi Kwarteng suggests the standards commissioner's future is in doubt over the Owen Paterson lobbying affair.

Tory sleaze row: Calls made for probe into Kwarteng’s standards commissioner resignation comments

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 November, 2021

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been accused of bullying parliament’s independent regulator Kathryn Stone out of her job.

Local councils and net zero

COP26 mining statements obscure developed world’s ‘green extractivism’ plans

Tommy Greene
5 November, 2021

‘Many wealthy nations’ green transition strategies rely on a model characterised by industrial-scale extraction of finite metal and mineral reserves, while leaving commodity production and consumption unchecked.’

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