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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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Women in Yarl’s Wood barred from speaking to visiting MPs

Joana Ramiro
22 May, 2018

A surprise visit by the Home Affairs Committee gave many the hope to be listened to by politicians. Instead, they were locked up.

Molly Scott Cato: Corbyn should join us and demand a vote on the Brexit deal

Molly Scott Cato
22 May, 2018

It’s time for Labour to do what the majority of its members and MPs want: get off the fence and join the campaign for the People’s Vote.

Why Carillion happened – and what needs to change

John Lehal
22 May, 2018

Following from last week’s damning report into disgraced construction giant Carillion, John Lehal explains how auditing and company management needs to change.

An anti-Brexit peer just accused the Tories of trying to “seize control of the state”

Joana Ramiro
21 May, 2018

Andrew Adonis pulled no punches when quizzing the Government on disproportionately increasing the number of Conservative peers.

Mark Zuckerberg’s EU hearing will be livestream and Brussels is loving it

Joana Ramiro
21 May, 2018

The EU President was forced to make his interview with the Facebook founder a publicly broadcast event.

As the Grenfell Inquiry begins, here is all you need to know

Joana Ramiro
21 May, 2018

An inquiry into the Grenfell Tower blaze is starting today. Here is all you need to know about the investigation and the victims’ demands for justice.

MPs demand Tories hold back on terrifying MoD fire service sell-off

Josiah Mortimer
18 May, 2018

A powerful group of MPs has now joined unions in slamming the riskiest sell off of the decade.

Neither the Tories nor Labour have a clue when it comes to EEA membership

Tom Brake
18 May, 2018

The Liberal Democrats are the only ones with a sensible position when it comes to trade after Brexit, says the party’s Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake MP.

Britain’s health crisis is about poverty – not simply ‘poor choices’

Kevin Gulliver
18 May, 2018

There is a growing health divide in the UK – and austerity has a lot to answer for.

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Revealed: How Universal Credit has been a ‘nightmare’ for single parents

Josiah Mortimer
18 May, 2018

The system is still in turmoil – with even staff unclear of how it works, and parents in the dark over how much they stand to gain/lose in taking on work.

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