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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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The Greens have joined calls to increase the NHS pay rise

Chris Jarvis
8 March, 2021

At their conference, the Greens joined unions in demanding a 15 percent rise for all NHS health and care workers

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The pandemic has highlighted how landlords prey on students

Will Green
5 March, 2021

But are students fighting back?

Exclusive: Social partnership bill is model for UK, says Welsh minister

Joe Lo
5 March, 2021

Social partnership means employers, unions and government working together.

Leaked report reveals austerity-hit tracing teams didn’t use pub sign-in data

Joe Lo
5 March, 2021

After years of budget cuts, they didn’t have the “capacity”.

There’s no public appetite for a Human Rights Act review

Raoul Walawalker
4 March, 2021

It’s an obsession for the Tory Right not the public.

Shaun Bailey mocked as he claims to have helped “council estate lad” called Beth

Joe Lo
4 March, 2021

How many lads called Beth do you know?

Charities slam Sunak’s £20 a week raid on Universal Credit

Joe Lo
4 March, 2021

In six months time, six million people will lose out on £20 a week.

Prof Prem Sikka: This budget shows ‘levelling up’ is just a slogan

Prem Sikka
4 March, 2021

The budget will plunge more people into poverty and foodbank queues.

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1 March 2021

Josiah Mortimer
3 March, 2021

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

Spring Budget: Economists, opposition and campaigners react

LFF Reporter
3 March, 2021

“The party opposite spent a decade weakening the foundations of our economy. Now they pretend they can rebuild it,” Keir Starmer said.

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