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19 days ago

Would you install 2.75 tonnes of reinforced concrete in your garden, a fragment of the most notorious symbol of the cold war? Herne Hill resident Steven Thorpe did – and the neighbours are not happy

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20 days ago

Steven Thorpe, 65, bought a section of the notorious wall from a German farmer and put it up behind his Herne Hill, south London , home earlier this year.

21 days ago

The film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles

The unmistakable film-making voice of documentary-maker …

28 days ago

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a population slump in the east lays bare the existing divisions

62 days ago

Ken Lynch has had the 75ft long grey wall built along the side of his large detached house on Sandbanks Road in the smart Lilliput area of Poole, Dorset.

3 months ago

South Carolina senator has reconciled with the man he once called a ‘jackass’ and a ‘bigot’, and is pushing him to expand the war

To sceptics, Donald Trump’s war in Iran is a hubristic blunder that co…

4 months ago

Iran experts believe the symbolism of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death is overwhelming and that the regime will struggle to fill the power vacuum

Even before US and Israeli missiles began raining down, …

6 months ago

The chant resounds through the streets of Iran's holiest cities. 'The final battle. Pahlavi will return,' the protesters cry. 'Javid Shah! [Long live the Shah!].

Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on…

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