In the magazine this month

November 2009

It was a rare privilege to have a footnote in history at the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the collapse of communism
The Cold War was the first conflict that came close to annihilating Western civilisation — the first but almost certainly not the last. Yet the story of this global 40 Years War ended happily: it concluded almost bloodlessly in the European Revolution of 1989.
WILLIAM HORSLEY

The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the ultimate display of "people power", but did German reunification work?

LOUIS AMIS
The leaders of a new anti-Islamist group insist they aren't racist or BNP members
NICK COHEN
Derek Pasquill, the Foreign Office whistleblower who leaked documents on its collusion with Islamists, now faces ruin
 
AMIR TAHERI
Now that the insurgency is cracking, the time has come for Nato to send more troops into the war zone to finish off the job
JULIE BINDEL
Sex-change treatment for children is abuse and some transsexuals regret having it
PIERS PAUL READ AND DAVID HEATHCOAT-AMORY
The writer Piers Paul Read's Catholic vision of the EU confronts the politician David Heathcoat-Amory's Eurosceptic case for Britain as an independent country. The discussion is chaired by Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint