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Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham will use a major speech to confirm plans for a “No 10” in the North, as he sets out his vision for devolution and economic reform.
Speaking in Manchester on Monday, the newly elected Makerfield MP is expected to pledge a “circuit-breaker” for Britain and promise “good growth in every postcode”, with allies billing it as the biggest shift of power from Whitehall in modern times.
The former metro mayor will call for decision-making to be pushed back into local communities as part of his vision to “lift Britain back up”.
Burnham, who served as a minister and on the Opposition frontbench before becoming a regional mayor in 2017, will argue his generation of politicians must take responsibility for declining public trust.
He is expected to commit to reforming public procurement, which will centre on “buying British” to revive industry and secure more “social value” through work placements and apprenticeships.
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21 Apr 2026
What if one of our oldest ideas about ancestry is simply wrong? David Reich argues that ancient DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.
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Over the last 15 years, data on ancient DNA has upended the old story of human history. In this full-length interview, geneticist David Reich explains how new findings have challenged the family tree model of ancestry and revealed a past shaped by migration, interbreeding, disappearance, and constant change.
From Neanderthals and Denisovans to the myths of purity that still shape modern identity, Reich shows how the last decade of research has rewritten what we thought we knew about human origins. The result is a much stranger, more dynamic picture of the human story, one that forces us to rethink ancestry, evolution, and the deep history of who we are.
0:00 Part 1: How ancient DNA re-explains the world
6:24 A new scientific instrument
16:04 Part 2: Human history is not a family tree
24:37 The pattern that wouldn’t go away
28:44 Part 3: Rethinking human evolution models
33:54 The genome in motion
36:55 Part 4: What genetics does and doesn’t say about difference
45:15 How is this useful?
Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/your-ance…
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