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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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23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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Study shows lockdown delay was deadly for 22 London bus drivers

Joe Lo
19 March, 2021

While Boris Johnson was shaking hands with Covid patients, bus drivers were getting the disease and dying.

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The Sarah Everard vigil showed that police are part of the problem

Yasmin Al-Najar
19 March, 2021

Giving them more powers is not the answer.

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Claudia Webbe MP: Deporting rough sleepers is counter-productive and cruel

Claudia Webbe
19 March, 2021

It will push foreign rough sleepers away from help and into the arms of exploiters.

Sex workers must be allowed to report crime without fear of arrest

Lauren Medlicott
18 March, 2021

It’s a key part of reducing violence against women.

With government set to slash air taxes, polling shows Brits want air travel costs to rise

Joe Lo
18 March, 2021

Increasing the costs of air travel is supported by all age groups, regions, classes, genders and political affiliations.

Sian Berry

Exclusive: Greens propose new powers for London’s teenage assembly

Joe Lo
18 March, 2021

“Young people have shown more political leadership than most politicians in recent years, they deserve a real say in their future.”

Prof Prem Sikka: New reforms won’t turn poodle auditors into the watchdogs we need

Prem Sikka
18 March, 2021

You can’t scrutinise a company properly if you’re trying to sell consultancy services to it at the same time.

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

Josiah Mortimer
17 March, 2021

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

Men need to step up in the campaign to end violence against women

Nina Parker
17 March, 2021

Men are needed to act as catalysts and allies to end violence against women and girls, writes Nina de Ayala Parker.

A day late and a dollar short? Mixed union reaction to Uber’s ‘worker’ decision

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 March, 2021

What’s next after Uber’s decision to make its drivers employees?

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