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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 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 (5 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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LFF team thanks outgoing co-editor Joe Lo

LFF Reporter
31 March, 2021

“Left Foot Forward has stepped up a gear over the past few years, and Joe has played a big part in this.”

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The government’s ‘mental health recovery plan’ is an act of political gaslighting

Tom Pollard
31 March, 2021

As a social worker, I know just how much this plan misses the mark.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 5, March 2021

Josiah Mortimer
31 March, 2021

Our roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

Revealed: Many Asian people “afraid to leave the house” as Met records rise in hate crimes despite pandemic

Andrew Kersley
31 March, 2021

The findings come as an official government review tries to downplay the impact of racism in the UK.

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Caroline Lucas: Why we must shift to a wellbeing economy post-pandemic

Caroline Lucas
30 March, 2021

Caroline Lucas is calling for a paradigm shift in economic policy to prioritise environment, wellbeing, equality and resilience over GDP growth

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Recycled rhetoric and the glaring hole in the Tories’ Environment Bill

Steve Hynd
30 March, 2021

‘This is the government’s last chance to show real leadership ahead of COP26’

Revealed: Benefit cap hurting nearly 200,000 households

Josiah Mortimer
30 March, 2021

The vast majority of households hit by the cap are families with children.

Government axes the Green Homes Grant: what’s next?

William Baker
30 March, 2021

Scrapping this grant will set us back in the battle against fuel poverty.

‘A show of force’ by police: Bristol protesters describe what happened

Anvee Bhutani
29 March, 2021

On social media protestors are asserting a different narrative, of police inciting the majority of the violence and protesters largely reacting to it.

ReJoinEU mayoral candidate: The voices of Londoners who voted Remain are ‘being ignored’

Sophia Dourou
29 March, 2021

“Brexit won the day, we’ve had Brexit but there are problems with Brexit, and trying to ignore those problems, sweep them under the carpet just isn’t working,” said Hewison.

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