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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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As report blames lack of diversity for “blind spots”, is the top of the Home Office too white?

Joe Lo
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The department is dominated by white men.

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Bob Wylie
18 September, 2020

They’ve walked away with millions while the taxpayer clears up the mess.

Home Office has no evidence to support “activist lawyer” claims, say cross-party MPs

Joe Lo
18 September, 2020

Is the Home Office is trying to blame the legal system for its own mistakes?

Tory MPs who accused Nadia Whittome of lying owe her an apology

Joe Lo
17 September, 2020

It’s now been revealed she was telling the truth.

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Joe Lo
17 September, 2020

One region of 6 million people has no testing sites.

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Prof Prem Sikka: Tory economic policies have incubated the coronavirus crisis

Prem Sikka
17 September, 2020

They left the NHS unprepared for a pandemic we knew was coming.

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Joe Lo
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Josiah Mortimer
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Health Secretary breached party funding rules over ‘impermissible’ donation

Josiah Mortimer
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But Hancock avoided a fine over the donation from a Danish investor.

Wales’ top legal adviser: How the Internal Markets Bill represents a power grab

Jeremy Miles
16 September, 2020

Jeremy Miles MS, Counsel General for the Welsh Government, sets out the major problems with the Tories’ latest Brexit legislation.

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