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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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Latest Posts

After losing LBC gig, Farage launches newsletter on how to “potenitally profit” from Brexit

Joe Lo
16 October, 2020

The word “potentially” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Jenny Jones: The government is attacking law and order

Jenny Jones
16 October, 2020

It’s breaking international law itself and allowing spycops to break UK law.

Liz Saville Roberts: The spying bill is a threat to the free press

Liz Saville Roberts
15 October, 2020

The government must ensure journalists’ sources are protected.

Both sides of the Scottish independence debate face challenges

Andrew Smith
15 October, 2020

The unionist case will led by Tories this time.

NHS trusts’ rep backs Labour’s call for second lockdown

Joe Lo
15 October, 2020

The government’s scientists and the public also support a lockdown.

Arts orgs forced to tweet thanks to government in return for support

Joe Lo
15 October, 2020

If they didn’t thank Rishi Sunak’s Treasury, they wouldn’t get the cash.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried

Josiah Mortimer
14 October, 2020

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

Pandemic response

Sun and Mail in bizarre call for PM to ignore scientists…as Covid death rates spiral

Lucy Skoulding
14 October, 2020

Writing off our nation’s top medical professionals is a dangerous game, argues Lucy Skoulding

Britain is facing an epidemic of drug deaths, new stats reveal

Josiah Mortimer
14 October, 2020

Campaigners call for policy shift: “The first step is moving from denial to accepting that there is a problem.”

Labour urges government to abandon Serco and back local contact tracing

Lucy Skoulding
14 October, 2020

Local teams reached 97.1% of close contacts while Serco only reached 68.6% in the latest weekly stats

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