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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 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 (4 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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Survivors of domestic common assault only given six months to report it to the police – or face it ‘timing out’

Alexandra Warren
27 June, 2021

Three organisations have launched a campaign to extend the time allotted to 18 months.

Open letter urges UN Human Rights Council to make climate change a higher priority

Alexandra Warren
26 June, 2021

“Violence against the planet is also violence against people,” says climate campaigner Isabella Shraiman.

EXCLUSIVE: Brits say Royals should apologise for not hiring ‘coloured immigrants’

Alexandra Warren
26 June, 2021

Our poll reveals 48% of people thought the Royal Fousehold should apologise for the practice.

Prof Prem Sikka: The UK’s neoliberal coup has eroded democracy and human rights

Prem Sikka
25 June, 2021

‘The last forty years of neoliberal coup has restructured the UK state so that instead of being a provider of public services it has become a guarantor of corporate profits and enrichment of the few.’

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5 reasons why Matt Hancock’s alleged affair with aide is a matter of public interest

Basit Mahmood
25 June, 2021

If the allegations are true, then the health secretary would be in breach of the social distancing rules that his own department had issued in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19.

Hywel Williams MP: The Policing Bill will place unprecedented strain on Welsh public services

Hywel Williams MP
25 June, 2021

‘Such sweeping reforms will have huge consequential effects on matters that are the responsibility of the Senedd in Cardiff. But it has become clear that once again, Westminster doesn’t care.’

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Society of Editors ruthlessly mocked for ‘underwhelming’ donation towards diversity scheme

Basit Mahmood
24 June, 2021

‘The industry body for the UK press previously found itself in the middle of a media storm after claiming no section of UK press was bigoted’.

Only route for Starmer to Number 10 is through a confidence and supply agreement with other parties, Clive Lewis MP warns

Basit Mahmood
24 June, 2021

‘If Keir Starmer has any chance of being in Number 10, it will be the result of a confidence and supply agreement.’

We’re marching at the People’s Assembly demonstration because there’s an alternative to nuclear weapons

Kate Hudson
24 June, 2021

‘It has never been more vital that we build the mass movement against nuclear weapons and for peace’.

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Why London needs a Green Space Champion

Leonie Cooper
24 June, 2021

‘More and more community groups are taking it into their own hands to rejuvenate their streets and rewild their public spaces, turning grey to green’.

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