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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)

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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Watchdogs’ report describes “cycle” of increasingly low rape prosecutions

Alexandra Warren
17 July, 2021

“We need a criminal justice system that understands trauma, puts victims and survivors at its heart and is accountable,” says Rape Crisis England & Wales.

“A safe working environment is not a choice, it is an obligation”: MP mask row grows

Alexandra Warren
17 July, 2021

Unions say this is a stark example of how rules in Parliament apply only to some and not to others.

Gerard Coyne: “Obsessing around Westminster politics isn’t what I intend to be involved in”

Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2021

LFF speaks to the Unite leadership candidate.

The powers of the Lord Advocate in Scotland need splitting

Kenny MacAskill MP
16 July, 2021

‘The ongoing row in Scotland over the role of the Lord Advocate is of fundamental importance to Scottish democracy’.

GB News viewers crash to zero after presenter takes knee prompting boycott

Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2021

GB News, which has claimed to campaign on issues of free speech, described the gesture as an ‘unacceptable breach of our standards’

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MPs refusing to wear masks are putting parliamentary staff at risk

Jawad Raza
16 July, 2021

‘We’ll be writing to every MP spotted not wearing a face covering to challenge them to do the decent thing.’

Privatising Channel 4 could lead to ‘money flowing out of the country and into pockets of multinational corporations’, say MPs

Basit Mahmood
15 July, 2021

Privatisation could also result in the channel losing its publisher-broadcaster status which means that all revenues are invested back into the production of its content.

Former Tory police chief will not face prosecution despite live ammunition being found at his home

Basit Mahmood
15 July, 2021

Jason Ablewhite had already resigned as police and crime commissioner in November 2019 after he allegedly sent an explicit photo to a woman on Facebook.

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Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill will further criminalise asylum seekers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
15 July, 2021

‘According to Patel, our asylum system is broken and the way to fix it is to criminalise asylum seekers’.

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, July 2021

Josiah Mortimer
14 July, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

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