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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

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Revealed: Government failed to directly respond to Black Lives Matter petitions

Joe Lo Josiah Mortimer
9 July, 2020

A parliamentary committee ruled they had not responded properly to anti-racist campaigners.

Cummings blows £100m on green tech which scientists call a “costly distraction”

Joe Lo
9 July, 2020

History graduate Cummings is keen – scientists and environmentalists are not.

Angela Rayner: Labour can win another landslide if it listens to trade unions

Joe Lo
9 July, 2020

Labour must re-gain its trade union roots, she said.

Prof Prem Sikka: Budget spending is insufficient and inconsistent

Prem Sikka
9 July, 2020

Nothing for local authorities, public sector workers or the self-employed.

Campaigners hit out at huge gaps in Chancellor’s mini-budget

Josiah Mortimer
8 July, 2020

Where was the help for renters or the self-employed in Rishi Sunak’s statement?

REVEALED: Dominic Cummings plans to tour Britain’s highest security sites

Josiah Mortimer
8 July, 2020

Labour tell LFF: “Plans for Britain’s future defence and security should not be in the hands of a political adviser.”

Government aid policies are pushing privatisation in the global south

Dr. Wanda Wyporska
8 July, 2020

During a global pandemic, we need real development, not dividends for corporations.

Why did ministers hand a pest control company and sweet confectioner millions in PPE contracts?

Jolyon Maugham
8 July, 2020

We need the Government to come clean on the huge contracts it handed firms during the Covid crisis.

Tories u-turn on Covid test tax following outcry

Josiah Mortimer
8 July, 2020

It’s the latest in a string of policy reversals.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

The avalanche of job losses has begun. Only a Basic Income can protect us

Jonathan Bartley
8 July, 2020

Jonathan Bartley: Here’s how the Chancellor can protect Britain from an economic catastrophe.

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