As part of his research for this month's Dispatch from Siberia, Ben Judah interviewed Anton Surikov, a member of Russian military intelligence. It was Surikov's last interview for the western media - he died two months later in mysterious circumstances
The weasel words of the European Convention are undermining our ancient liberties. David Cameron is right to demand reform
The West cannot defeat radical Islam if it abandons Afghans and Pakistanis prematurely
The new Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, tells Daniel Johnson about his vision of English Catholicism
Jean Moulin, the leader of the struggle against the Nazis, died in 1943. Now his aide’s memoirs have revived controversy
What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth
Is the passage about Jesus by the great Jewish historian a forgery — or authentic?
