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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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Music festivals will ‘disappear’ if they’re unable to go ahead this summer, organisers tell MPs

Josiah Mortimer
5 January, 2021

Organisers want clarity from the government – and soon.

This new bill on domestic abuse is a step in the right direction – but big gaps remain

Natalie Bennett
5 January, 2021

Support services are stretched to the limit – and too many people are likely to fall through the cracks, writes Natalie Bennett.

Mary Bousted: Teachers and pupils deserve better than this chaos over schools

Mary Bousted
4 January, 2021

This chaos could have been avoided if the government listened to teachers, their unions and experts.

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Inside Home Office plans to ramp up deportation flights

Raoul Walawalker
4 January, 2021

Those with minor convictions for petty theft or driving offences could be caught in the Home Office’s draconian net.

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Mary Kelly Foy: Good riddance to 2020; hope for 2021

Mary Kelly Foy
4 January, 2021

2020 was a horrendous year. But the coming together of communities should give socialists hope.

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Allan Dorans: What has the SNP done for us? Here are seven ways we’ve tackled inequality

Allan Dorans
4 January, 2021

Only the SNP will put its left foot forward for the people of Scotland, writes the Scottish National Party MP.

Chaotic government messaging over schools continues

Emma Burnell
4 January, 2021

Government dithering is leaving teachers, pupils and parents in chaos.

Covid, Cummings and Cronyism: How Left Foot Forward covered 2020

Joe Lo
31 December, 2020

It was quite a year!

Prof Prem Sikka: With their Brexit deal, the government has broken its promises to voters

Prem Sikka
31 December, 2020

Johnson said we’d stay in the single market.

Douglas Chapman: Scotland wants no part in the Tories’ latest nuclear energy folly

Douglas Chapman MP
30 December, 2020

As Scotland moves away from nuclear power, the UK Government is trying to impose this costly distraction, writes Douglas Chapman MP.

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