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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Latest Posts

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried this week

Josiah Mortimer
11 September, 2020

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

Ministers are trying to ram through major Brexit changes using Henry VIII powers

Dick Newby
11 September, 2020

The Tories are trying to dodge scrutiny of sweeping legislative changes, writes Dick Newby, leader of the Lib Dems in the Lords.

Yorkshire Deliveroo couriers boycott Wagamama and Five Guys

Joe Lo
10 September, 2020

They say the restaurants profit from Deliveroo’s bad employment practices.

English coronavirus cases surged just before schools returned

Joe Lo
10 September, 2020

Nearly 10,000 people tested positive in one week.

9 progressive policies the Climate Assembly recommended

Joe Lo
10 September, 2020

They want public transport to be nationalised and free.

Experts warn of customs ‘chaos’ as end of UK nears end of EU transition period

Josiah Mortimer
9 September, 2020

“We’re going to see chaos in Kent” without urgent clarity, MPs were told.

Victory for environmentalists as plans for major North East coal mine rejected

Tommy Greene
9 September, 2020

“The beginning of the end of UK coal.”

MPs demand government action over ‘systemic abuse’ of Uighur Muslims in China

Josiah Mortimer
9 September, 2020

“The Foreign Secretary can – and must – lead the charge to forge a path towards the Uighurs freedom.”

Sian Berry Jonathan Bartley

Green Party leadership team re-elected – but few members turn out

Josiah Mortimer
9 September, 2020

Jonathan Bartley and Siân Berry will serve a second joint term, following a long and often heated contest.

Whitehall

What’s at stake when it comes to the government’s threat to break the law

Catherine Haddon
9 September, 2020

The resignation of the government’s senior law advisor over the Tories’ handling of the Withdrawal Agreement is extraordinary.

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