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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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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Why I joined Labour after voting for Boris Johnson in 2019

Harry Cromack
7 January, 2021

The Tories are out of touch and have underfunded mental health

Lisa Cameron: The UK government has neglected children’s’ mental health

Lisa Cameron
7 January, 2021

Where’s the strategy? Where’s the funding?

Radical roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 6th January 2021

Josiah Mortimer
6 January, 2021

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

An early year worker’s plea to the Education Secretary: Close nurseries now

Josiah Mortimer
6 January, 2021

Many in the early years sector feel ignored, at risk, and treated as an afterthought by the government.

Come on, Keir: Where is Labour’s economic plan when we need it?

Liam Barrett
6 January, 2021

Almost no one wants the economy to return to how it was pre-pandemic. What’s Keir Starmer’s vision?

There’s another solution to the schools fiasco

Omar Salem
6 January, 2021

Remote learning is beset with problems. Ministers need to look at other options, argues Omar Salem.

Revealed: Home Secretary’s ‘vital’ quarantine checks are almost non-existent

Josiah Mortimer
6 January, 2021

The Isolation Assurance Service – the Government’s system for ensuring quarantine compliance – didn’t contact over 1.9 million of the two million passengers spot checked by Border Force.

Shut the borders to tackle surge in coronavirus cases, SNP says

Josiah Mortimer
5 January, 2021

Britain’s hard right Home Sec Priti Patel is, strangely, refusing to close the borders when it actually might be necessary…

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Letter: Labour demands answers over nurseries remaining open

LFF Reporter
5 January, 2021

Tulip Siddiq, Shadow Early Years Minister, writes to the Government about the decision to keep early years settings open during England’s lockdown.

Corporate-led trade deals are coming to Britain – and unions have to be ready

Tony Burke
5 January, 2021

The Tories are trying to shut workers out of Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals, writes Unite’s Tony Burke.

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