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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)

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Exclusive: Tories failing to live up to G7 rhetoric on biodiversity, Labour warns

Josiah Mortimer
11 June, 2021

Ministers have no plan to restore and rewild habitats in Britain, Olivia Blake MP says.

Exclusive: Musician who will perform before G7 leaders shared ‘far right’ Facebook post

Basit Mahmood
11 June, 2021

Graham Trudgeon, who is part of Du Hag Owr, will perform in front of G7 leaders tomorrow night.

Prof Prem Sikka: A failure to tackle skills shortages is threatening the post-Covid economic recovery

Prem Sikka
11 June, 2021

The government is hoping to alleviate skills shortages by recruiting individuals from all over the world. A key part of this is the recognition of foreign qualifications.

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Homeless forced out of hotels and left to live in tents and cars to make way for G7, charity says

Basit Mahmood
11 June, 2021

‘DISC Newquay says it has heard first hand from people who have had to leave the hotels to make way for police’

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Here’s how the government can prevent a flood of evictions in London

Sem Moema
11 June, 2021

‘Almost a third of Londoners live in the private rented sector’

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Jenny Jones: The G7 needs to work towards an international carbon tax

Jenny Jones
11 June, 2021

‘The top four oil companies alone have made more than $2 trillion in profit since 1990.’

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Who are the Unite general secretary candidates and what do they stand for?

Basit Mahmood
10 June, 2021

It’s an election that will not only affect workers up and down the country but could have significant repercussions for the Labour party.

Sarah Owen MP: Cutting aid is a blow to the world’s poorest and a step back from world stage

Sarah Owen
10 June, 2021

‘As a country that wants to stand proud at home and abroad, we have a moral obligation to the world’s poorest.’

Beyond the glitz and glamour of G7: Rising poverty and food bank use in Cornwall

Basit Mahmood
10 June, 2021

‘While the likes of Joe Biden will be treated to vintage wines, it is worth remembering that Cornwall is one of the poorest areas in North West Europe’.

We need an overhaul of how women are treated in the criminal justice system

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
10 June, 2021

‘Each year, 12,000 women are imprisoned in the UK, many serving short sentences for non-violent offences’.

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