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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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Philippa Borrowman: Air pollution must not become another factor dividing the country

Philippa Borrowman
24 March, 2021

Tackling air pollution should not be a luxury exclusively for the South. It should be a right for everyone, wherever they live, writes Philippa Borrowman

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4 March 2021

Josiah Mortimer
24 March, 2021

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

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Revealed: Young people have borne the brunt of job losses during the pandemic

Josiah Mortimer
23 March, 2021

The British Youth Council told LFF they were ‘extremely concerned’ by the findings.

Shrewsbury 24 picketers finally get their names cleared

Raoul Walawalker
23 March, 2021

One of the union movement’s longest-standing battles for justice has finally succeeded.

Have politicians stopped owning up to their falsehoods?

Josiah Mortimer
23 March, 2021

On the lost art of ‘fessing up.

MPs and business leaders back stronger workers’ rights. When will they act?

Tony Burke
23 March, 2021

New polling shows that stronger workers’ rights aren’t just popular among the left.

Black Lives Matter

Right to protest during lockdown should be on same footing as communal worship

Lucy Skoulding
22 March, 2021

The Joint Committee on Human Rights says ambiguity over our right to protest must be scrapped

Revealed: Chancellor’s secret wave of austerity on the horizon

Lucy Skoulding
22 March, 2021

Britain may be headed for a new period of Tory austerity, according to IFS analysis

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Green New Deal pledge could finally become Labour priority after Keir Starmer silence

Lucy Skoulding
22 March, 2021

Pledges include creating millions of green jobs and a ‘just’ transition away from polluting industries

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Doctor’s Note: It is the NHS that deserves the ‘Vaccine Bounce’

Dr Joe McManners
22 March, 2021

‘The NHS itself is almost perfectly designed for this task,’ says Dr Joe McManners

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