Iraq's public health service is being replaced by American-inspired private care. The poor may turn to the mosques for medical help

Intelligence officials systematically inflate the terrorist threat. Ministers must ask the right questions

America rampant or a world made safe? Galina J Michkovitch talks to Clinton's CIA director

I studied interrogation arts with Alan Bennett and Dennis Potter

Why did the Bush administration endorse a forgery about Iraq's nuclear programme? Did it come from British intelligence?

War in Iraq has exposed the"special relationship" as a liability that has damaged British interests in Europe and the Muslim world. Inside the British establishment the special relationship is now supported only by prime ministers, submariners and code breakers. We…

Britain's intelligence ties with the US-which includes spying on other EU states-may undermine Europe's new defence policy

Even during the cold war, secret intelligence achieved rather little. In the post-cold war world, do secret agencies still have a role at all?

We can now read the official reflections of British diplomacy as it battled with the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. The documents reveal fascinating differences of opinion

Markus Wolf, the former east German spy chief, has written a self-serving cook book cum autobiography. Lesley Chamberlain finds it fascinating but morally tasteless