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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Scavenging energy on the radio waves
New research shows that energy could be extracted from the wifi waves that surround us, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Radio City Tower viewed from across the Mersey with Albert Dock in the foreground
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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
IF YOU use wireless internet, you may have noticed that there is a lot of it around.
Almost every square metre of space in cities is covered by multiple wifi router ranges.
The proliferation of overlapping, jealously password-protected wifi provision rakes in profits for internet companies that are able to charge several separate people who could instead share the cost and use of a single wifi router.
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