Author Paul Krugman says ending this recession should be easy but we seem to be making it painful, writes Decca Aitkenhead.

Controversial novelist James Frey talks to <b>Decca Aitkenhead</b> about truth, fiction and his new book <i>The Final Testament of the Holy Bible</i>.

From hero of the left to neocon and still battling on. <b>Christopher Hitchens</b> talks to <b>Decca Aitkenhead</b> about his new memoir.

In Richard Dawkins’s view, there is a battle taking place in UK between the forces of reason and religious fundamentalism, and it is far from won.

The night Alan Johnston was taken hostage in Gaza, the kidnappers’ leader told him he would one day go free. "And," the masked figure in robes told the BBC reporter, "you will…