The foreign secretary, David Miliband, has defended his decision to keep secret evidence of the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Guantánamo Bay. He told the Commons there was no threat from the US, but that the Americans would review their sharing of intelligence with Britain if information was made public. Is Miliband telling the truth? Is he being consistent? I ask the Guardian's security editor, Richard Norton-Taylor.
Head of business Dan Roberts explains the Bank of England's decision to cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 1% yesterday. And he looks at the unexpected news from the Halifax that house prices increased in January by 1.9%.
A House of Lords committee publishes a report today on Britain's use of surveillance. Home affairs editor Alan Travis says it challenges many of the assumptions by supporters of surveillance, and warns of a grave danger to our right to privacy.
Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo tells Mark Tran why the credit crisis might work in Africa's favour, if it eases the developing world's dependence on western aid.
And arts correspondent Mark Brown considers the work of James Patterson, named today as the most borrowed author from Britain's public libraries.
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