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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 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 (3 days ago)

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, July 2021

Josiah Mortimer
28 July, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Elections Bill: MPs launch probe into government ‘power grab’

Josiah Mortimer
28 July, 2021

“The Bill does little for electoral integrity, and much to strengthen electoral support for the government.”

Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds

Paul Lashmar
28 July, 2021

The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.

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UnionDues: The campaign to commemorate one of Britain’s first strikes

Simon Sapper
28 July, 2021

It’s time to recognise the legacy of the Matchgirls strike.

‘Is this a joke?’: PM’s climate spokesperson’s solution to climate crisis has people gobsmacked

Josiah Mortimer
27 July, 2021

If this is even 1,000th of the government’s message for COP26, we’re more doomed than we thought…

Labour pledges new climate policies after ‘disappointment’ at lack of action

Josiah Mortimer
27 July, 2021

LFF understands the Labour party is planning a summer policy spree, including fresh pledges on climate action.

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Green Party leadership race kicks off

Josiah Mortimer
27 July, 2021

Over 50,000 members will have a say in picking the party’s next leader or co-leader.

What Dawn Butler and Emily Maitlis have in common

Nina Parker
27 July, 2021

Women are speaking truth to power – and the backlash is real.

UK floods: Extreme weather puts the floodlight on climate change

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 July, 2021

A summer of surging climate disasters underscores what scientists have warned for years, more needs to be done to fight climate change.

Government’s move to axe EU wine-importing legislation met with mockery among Remainers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 July, 2021

As empty supermarket shelves show Brexit’s hangover is kicking in, the government’s scrapping of EU wine import certification is lauded as a ‘Brexit victory’. Naturally, Remainers are up in arms.

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