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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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Nine new billionaires created due to profits from Covid vaccines, says campaign group

Basit Mahmood
20 May, 2021

According to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries 1.3 times.

Anne McLaughlin MP: The Tories are bringing their culture war into law

Anne McLaughlin MP
20 May, 2021

‘It is kneejerk, populist and fascistic law-making to protect the lies of benevolent imperialism, and it is a dangerous attack on all of our civil liberties.’

Sarah Champion MP: The government is ‘failing the world’s poorest’

Sarah Champion
20 May, 2021

‘We desperately need a clear commitment to international development with well targeted aid that listens to the Global South.’

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Natalie Bennett: The government’s new green plans are riddled with holes

Natalie Bennett
19 May, 2021

It’s time to unpick the Tories’ misleading environmental promises.

Radical Roundup

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

Josiah Mortimer
19 May, 2021

Our roundup of the progressive news the media missed.

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Andrew Gwynne MP: Tory ‘levelling up’ plans look a lot like cronyism

Andrew Gwynne MP
19 May, 2021

We need proper scrutiny of the government’s pork-barrel politics.

Wera Hobhouse MP: The Lib Dems’ door is open to a progressive alliance

Wera Hobhouse MP
19 May, 2021

Parties need to work together to boot out the Tories – and secure PR – writes the Lib Dem MP.

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EXCLUSIVE: Third of voters say government’s Covid inquiry is too late

Josiah Mortimer
18 May, 2021

“We shouldn’t have to wait until next year for the inquiry into how coronavirus has been handled,” Caroline Lucas tells LFF.

Jim McMahon MP: How Labour mayors are reversing the blunder of bus privatisation

Jim McMahon
18 May, 2021

Next stop, public ownership? Labour figures are adopting the London model to overhaul England’s beleaguered buses.

EXCLUSIVE: Scots have right to another indy referendum, say voters in England

Josiah Mortimer
18 May, 2021

The findings come as Nicola Sturgeon is once against sworn in as First Minister, after voters elected a pro-independence majority.

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