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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Government has invited charges of cronyism, says establishment think tank IfG

Joe Lo
28 January, 2021

Large contracts, with little scrutiny, have been awarded to personal contacts of ministers.

Diana Johnson: To bust sex trafficking’s business model, we must criminalise paying for sex

Diana Johnson
28 January, 2021

Paying for sex is exploitation.

Labour cannot be allowed to backtrack when it comes to helping the Global South

Mike Buckley
28 January, 2021

If Labour’s view has shifted against debt cancellation, it marks an unwelcome sea change, writes Mike Buckley.

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners aghast as Labour suggests u-turn on pandemic debt relief

Josiah Mortimer
27 January, 2021

Starmer’s spokesman said it was not Labour policy to back debt cancellation for developing countries to tackle the pandemic.

Covid girl in mask

Starmer spokesman rejects calls for immediate inquiry into Covid deaths

Lucy Skoulding
27 January, 2021

The UK has surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths but Starmer’s spokesman said the current focus is on vaccines and lifting the lockdown

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 27th January 2021

Josiah Mortimer
27 January, 2021

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

SNP to introduce Bill to tackle ‘rampant Tory cronyism’

Lucy Skoulding
27 January, 2021

SNP MP Owen Thompson is today present the Ministerial Interests (Emergency Powers) Bill

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Why the Covid vaccines alone are not enough

Omar Salem
27 January, 2021

We need to campaign for mass vaccination. Here’s how.

No, Lisa Nandy does not want to abolish the army. But she should

Symon Hill
26 January, 2021

What’s behind the controversy over the Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Open Labour pamphlet?

Why Johnson’s hopes for a speedy US trade deal are in tatters

Tony Burke
26 January, 2021

Biden is in no hurry to do a deal with the UK, whatever the PM might believe.

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