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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Gavin Williamson

Employers and skills bodies back learning fund the Tories are trying to axe

Tony Burke
28 October, 2020

“The timing of this decision is bizarre in the extreme.”

Tory politicians are trying and failing to justify the free school meals fiasco

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 October, 2020

The party is looking sheepish, squirming and desperate, as they try to belittle Labour’s support for tackling child hunger.

The cost of food vouchers is a drop in the ocean compared to these other Tory projects

Sam Peters
28 October, 2020

As Johnson digs his heels in on child hunger, we’re getting a clear sense of the government’s priorities.

EXCLUSIVE: “Wales can stand alone” says Green leader as Welsh party backs independence

Josiah Mortimer
27 October, 2020

Wales Green Party joins the campaign for splitting from the United Kingdom. Pictured: England & Wales leader
Siân Berry with Wales leader Anthony Slaughter.

How one million pensioners are missing out on crucial government support

Natalie Bennett
27 October, 2020

A Lords debate showed the Tories have no plan to address the problem, writes Natalie Bennett.

Protesters against antisemitism

Hope not Hate: Labour’s ‘shameful’ path to the EHRC investigation

Liron Velleman
27 October, 2020

Ahead of the rumoured launch of the report this week, Liron Velleman looks at how Labour got to this bleak milestone.

UnionDues: Inside the CWU’s battle for the Royal Mail

Simon Sapper
27 October, 2020

Simon Sapper speaks to the Communication Workers’ Union ahead of the release of the latest UnionDues podcast.

Sun ‘clarifies’ calling pregnant police officers “fat blue line”

Emma Burnell
26 October, 2020

The Sun newspaper has issued an apology (or clarification as they call it) for a story published on 29th August claiming that 10,000 UK police officers had been put on ‘light duties’ for being physically unfit. It turns out thattest

Tory MPs show their true (blue) colours over free school meals scandal

Emma Burnell
26 October, 2020

When Tories tell you who they are – believe them.

The free school meals scandal show that the Tories never cared about ‘levelling up’

Jatinder Hayre
26 October, 2020

Being well fed is a year round right. The Tories seem to have forgotten that.

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