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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, June 2021

Josiah Mortimer
16 June, 2021

Legal limbo, uni strikes, deportation victory, and banning fire-and-rehire: just some of what got spiked this week.

Minority communities have struggled to get fair health treatment for too long. The vaccine programme shows the way

Beauty Dhlamini
16 June, 2021

The NHS has a long way to go in restoring trust among some minority communities, but the vaccine programme is a strong start, a Department of Health and Social Care adviser writes.

Scottish independence campaigners are planning to occupy London

Derek McArthur
16 June, 2021

The Queen’s estates, Westminster, and even nuclear sites are among targets in the next phase of the Scottish independence campaign, Derek McArthur writes.

EXCLUSIVE: Voters say PM was wrong to get jet to Cornwall for G7

LFF Reporter
15 June, 2021

“When it comes to tackling the climate emergency, the UK Government is very good at talking up their climate credentials, but completely fails to follow through with the urgent steps needed.”

EXCLUSIVE: Tories plan raid on trade union finances

Tony Burke
15 June, 2021

Ministers have snuck out proposals for a stealth tax on union funds.

Wendy Chamberlain MP: We need to expose the Tories’ Young Parent Penalty

Wendy Chamberlain
15 June, 2021

Universal Credit is unfairly hitting young parents in the pocket.

The setting Sun: Murdoch paper valued at ZERO by News Corp

Lucy Skoulding
14 June, 2021

Legal fees from the phone hacking scandal as well as the the pandemic saw News Group Newspapers lose £200 million last year.

Scrabble letters that read 'Democracy'

Government’s FOI guidelines breach deemed ‘corrosive to our democracy’ by Labour MP

Lucy Skoulding
14 June, 2021

All FOI requests should be dealt with equally and on an ‘applicant blind’ basis’.

GB News: ‘Disrupter’ channel’s launch ruthlessly mocked online

Lucy Skoulding
14 June, 2021

After weeks of build up, last night saw the launch of new channel GB News and with it came plenty of backlash

Molly Scott Cato: To stop the climate crisis, we need to fix the UK’s crisis of democracy

Molly Scott Cato
14 June, 2021

We need a political system where the climate-focused parties stand a real chance of succeeding says Molly Scott Cato.

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