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Thesis9 combines concise reporting, research-led explainers and a low-noise editorial style at a time when public trust in news remains fragile. Independent news is not short of confidence. The internet is packed with publications promising fearless truth, urgent analysis and journalism “they” do not want you to read. Most then produce three rewrites of a press release, a culture-war headline, and a newsletter popup aggressive enough to qualify as weather. Thesis9, at thesis9.com, makes a calmer pitch. Its homepage describes the site as “fact-based, quality global news” and says it…
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As Keir Starmer announces his resignation and Andy Burnham emerges as the clear frontrunner to replace him, scrutiny is growing over where Britain’s likely next prime minister stands on Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East; a record that is more complex, and more contested, than either side tends to admit. Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street on the morning of Monday 22 June 2026 and announced he would step down as Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. “The question my party is asking now is whether I am best…
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Highlighted by a new article by Thesis9, a new UK website called PIP Devil packages disability benefit statistics, local claimant data, Motability information, and fraud case patterns in a way that critics say encourages public suspicion of disabled people; here is what the data actually shows, and why the site’s framing is being called dangerous. A website called PIP Devil, accessible at pipdevil.com, has attracted significant criticism from disability advocates and commentators for the way it presents information about the UK’s Personal Independence Payment benefit. The site describes itself as…
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Sheffield’s Green Party voted for the Local Plan, knowing it included limited greenbelt development. Now they are being attacked for it by a campaign that has found itself aligned with Reform UK; raising questions about whose interests the opposition actually serves. Sheffield’s local elections on 7 May arrive against the backdrop of one of the most charged planning disputes the city has seen in years. At the centre of it is the Sheffield Local Plan, a long-overdue blueprint for housing and development in the city up to 2039, and a…
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Barack Obama is making headlines on several fronts this month; his long-delayed Presidential Center is finally opening in Chicago this June, he backed a narrow Democratic win in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and he is set to appear on Stephen Colbert’s final run of Late Show episodes. Presidential Center: a decade in the making The Obama Presidential Center opens on 19 June 2026, on Chicago’s South Side in Jackson Park. The $850 million center spans 19 acres and will feature a museum building, forum building, a Chicago Public Library branch, a…
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How the explosion in e-commerce logistics is pushing giant distribution sheds onto protected land across England, pitting residents against developers, councils against communities, and planning policy against itself The four warehouses rising above the rooftops of Tyldesley in Greater Manchester are 18 metres tall — around the height of a six-storey building. They sit within 30 metres of the back gardens of residential homes. A footpath used by children to reach Garrett Hall Primary School runs alongside the site. Last autumn, the path flooded. Parents filmed themselves wading through water…