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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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Queer Night Pride marches held in the face of rising sexual orientation hate crimes

Sam Stroud
4 September, 2021

“The queer community shouldn’t have to see our brothers’ and sisters’ faces, siblings’ faces, black and blue across social media.”

Met say use of force was “reasonable and proportionate” at Extinction Rebellion protest

Alexandra Warren
4 September, 2021

Officers allegedly struck and wrestled protesters near London Bridge on Tuesday.

Tories face backlash over plans to hike National Insurance to pay for social care for elderly

Basit Mahmood
3 September, 2021

‘We need a tax rise to pay for social care, but not this one’.

Green Party ask Sian Berry to remove video expressing her preferences in leadership election

Basit Mahmood
3 September, 2021

Sian had called for members to give their first and second preference votes to either Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack, or to Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.

Prof Prem Sikka: Why the government needs to abolish tuition fees and write off student debt

Prem Sikka
3 September, 2021

‘In March 2021, the outstanding student debt was around £141bn’.

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Mary Kelly Foy MP: Simply saying that we will be carbon neutral by 2050 is not enough

Mary Kelly Foy
3 September, 2021

‘The likes of BP and Exxon need to be held accountable for the masses of emissions they produce’.

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Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans which could breach human rights law, report warns

Basit Mahmood
2 September, 2021

‘Whilst the Government’s list of acceptable forms of ID has been widely drawn, it is estimated that over 2 million people will not have an acceptable form of ID’

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Five things we learnt from Dominic Raab’s grilling by MPs on Afghanistan

Basit Mahmood
2 September, 2021

The foreign secretary’s answers to very direct questions were vague, obfuscatory and sought to shift blame elsewhere than accept responsibility.

Tory attack on Runnymede Trust over race report fails

Basit Mahmood
2 September, 2021

Over a dozen Conservative Party MPs wrote to the Charity Commission last year demanding it launch an investigation into the think tank over its criticism of a government race report.

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Union blames 12 hour shifts and low wages for food supply issues

Lucy Skoulding
1 September, 2021

Worries about having enough Christmas food are distracting us from the basic problem, says GMB Union

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