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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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Exclusive: ‘Global Britain’ shuts down honorary consulates abroad

Joe Lo
13 August, 2020

The cuts will make it harder for Brits abroad to get help.

Migration Watch misrepresents watchdog’s report to stoke asylum-seeker fears

Joe Lo
13 August, 2020

The report said the opposite of what they claimed.

Right-wingers force Jewish activist off Twitter after he called out Islamophobia

Joe Lo
13 August, 2020

He feared losing his job at the Board of Deputies.

Facebook is ‘prioritising profits’ over tackling hate speech

Josiah Mortimer
12 August, 2020

Facebook profits are surging. Is hate speech surging too?

Calling time on warped reporting: Yes, we’re East Asians. No, we’re not tied to the Chinese Communist Party

Sarah Owen MP
12 August, 2020

Harmful media stereotypes are exacerbating the everyday racism faced by British East Asians, writes Sarah Owen MP.

Campaigners demand rethink on ‘failing’ test and trace scheme as ministers mull extension

Josiah Mortimer
12 August, 2020

Testing the limits of privatisation: is it time to hand the test and trace scheme to local health experts?

The Inglorious Twelfth: Are we nearing the end of grouse shooting?

Natalie Bennett
12 August, 2020

We need to move away from seeing nature as a resource to be plundered – and instead start re-building our ecosystems.

Kent’s moveable Brexit barrier won’t be completed until 2022

Joe Lo
11 August, 2020

Grant Shapps said it would be ready by December 2020 when the transition period ends.

Exclusive: Campaigners criticise ‘revolving door’ as Serco appoints top ex civil servant

Joe Lo
11 August, 2020

And a health minister is a former Serco lobbyist.

Sun and Mail refuse to mention climate change in heatwave reporting

Joe Lo
11 August, 2020

The elephant in the room?

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