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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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Young, autistic and imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit

Rebecca Tidy
30 May, 2021

The UK’s joint enterprise law – abolished in 2016 – means that Alex Henry is serving a 19-year jail sentence for throwing a mobile phone and a punch.

Is Northern Ireland’s Assembly failing the LGBT+ community?

Damian Kerlin
30 May, 2021

The DUP must confront its dire legacy on LGBT+ rights.

UK immigration law hoards the spoils of colonialism

Alisha Ingram
29 May, 2021

Britain enriched itself by exploiting other countries and their people, called them part of the British Empire, and now it’s shutting its doors and treating them like criminals.

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A new report reveals a groundswell of support for increased benefits payments

Sophia Dourou
28 May, 2021

A survey of 1,647 respondents in the UK found that more than half adults wanted higher benefits for disabled people, carers and lone parents.

EXCLUSIVE: Tory MP Eddie Hughes slammed for sharing picture of himself posing with gun

Alexandra Warren
28 May, 2021

Eddie Hughes MP posted the photo holding the weapon, while standing in front of a rack of guns to his official LinkedIn profile and Twitter.

Kim Johnson MP: Tory attacks on marginalised communities are designed to distract from their own failings

Kim Johnson
28 May, 2021

‘The classic tactics of divide and rule are now dubbed a ‘War on Woke’.

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem SIkka: It’s time to face the facts about corruption in Britain

Prem Sikka
28 May, 2021

‘Are democratic governance, the rule of law and our human rights under threat from practices which have institutionalised corruption in the UK?’

Matt Hancock at a Covid press conference

‘Hancock should consider his position, we know we were lied to’ says director of National Care Association

Basit Mahmood
28 May, 2021

“People lost lives and we know they lost lives unnecessarily and prematurely and had the government put in robust systems that wouldn’t have happened.”

Racist and sexist abuse by anonymous online accounts needs to be stamped out, say campaigners

Sophia Dourou
28 May, 2021

The government’s Online Safety Bill fails to deal with anonymous accounts behind much of the online abuse.

Claire Hanna MP: Victims in Northern Ireland can’t ‘move on’ until perpetrators let them

Claire Hanna
27 May, 2021

‘Reconciliation will never be achieved if the needs of victims keep coming second to the needs of victim makers.’

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