As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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How to make your dreams take flight
Taking to the skies alone like birds has long been a human obsession - and we are still discovering so much about flight from nature, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
FLIGHT is one of our most coveted superpowers, vying with mind-reading, teleportation and invisibility in the fantasy of “if you could do anything…”
It’s a curiously mundane ambition: the power of flight is enjoyed by millions of species on Earth (mostly insects), including even ourselves in the form of flying vehicles.
Perhaps it’s not so strange — after all, it’s easiest to want pleasures we can most vividly imagine. We’re surrounded by birds and insects flying majestically around us, so it’s natural that we wish to join them.
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WILL PODMORE recommends an excellent and useful introduction to a lesser-known giant of the scientific revolution in Britain