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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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 (2 days ago)

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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Led By Donkeys unfurls Gaza protest banner at Labour HQ

Olivia Barber
22 July, 2025

‘The UK continues to provide arms, intelligence and diplomatic cover to Israel. There are no excuses for this to continue.’

water pollution

Public ownership only answer to water industry crisis not another failed regulator, Unite the union warns

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2025

“Water workers and the public will just think this report is a bad joke – it doesn’t even consider returning water to public ownership.”

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Reform MP Lee Anderson called out for repeating false claim about ‘Channel migrants’

Olivia Barber
22 July, 2025

The Tories’ claim that Channel migrants are 24 times more likely to be jailed than British citizens is false, but Reform is still repeating it

Nigel Farage, Sarah Pochin and Laila Cunningham at Reform UK presser yesterday
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Nigel Farage’s pledge to halve crime rubbished as ‘fantasy’ within hours of announcement

Olivia Barber
22 July, 2025

‘This isn’t a manifesto – it’s a fantasy, written on the back of a fag packet.’

Pochin

Reform MP’s outrageous claim about Afghan and Eritrean asylum seekers fact checked on-air

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2025

But of course, Reform MPs don’t care about the facts.

Reform UK

Reform accepts council tax cuts ‘not going to happen’

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2025

That’s not what Reform was promising voters in the local elections in May!

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons

Nigel Farage says he has ‘no idea’ six times over Reform mayor’s 600% allowance hike

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2025

So much for cutting costs for taxpayers’, clueless Farage doesn’t even know what his own party is up to.

Nigel Farage

‘I don’t know’: Nigel Farage appears clueless in his most humiliating interview yet

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2025

‘I don’t know, I haven’t sat in the negotiations but a completely different mind-set is needed.’

Woke bashing of the week: Pink panic: Sun spins Jaguar’s pink car into culture war fodder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Yet another cynical attempt by a right-wing tabloid to turn a brand it has a grudge against into fodder for a culture war tirade.

Daily Mail and Sun

Right-wing media watch – Daily Mail is America’s top news brand on TikTok – yes really!

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

The Daily Mail, Britain’s most notorious right-wing newspaper, is now the most-engaged news brand on TikTok in America.

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