The world since the Berlin Wall

Daniel Johnson and Mara Delius recall the triumph of freedom 25 years ago

Gisela Stuart MP and Sheila Lawlor react to UKIP

Jonathan Aitken: Prisons work if prisoners work

Maureen Lipman: I won't vote Labour this time

David Willetts MP: Squire Scruton,the High Tory

War crimes and punishment

Geoffrey Robertson QC: Bring jihadis to justice

Julie Bindel on Britain's sharia courts

Maureen Lipman's speedy road to repentance

Tim Congdon: The young have never had it so bad

Autumn books and arts: Amis & McEwan

Napoleon & Stalin

Piero della Francesca

Paul Johnson/Inna Lazareva/Hugh Thomas/Jeffrey Meyers/Mara Delius/Alasdair Palmer/Douglas Murray/Lisa Hilton/Dominic Lawson/James Mumford/Agnieszka Kolakowska/Nick Cohen/Anne McElvoy/George Walden/Norman Lebrecht/Jeremy JenningsDavid Herman/Nigel Vinson/Dan Hitchens/Saba Farzan/David Womersley/Anna Aslanyan

Jihad on the march

Islamism and its victims: Douglas Murray, Michael Nazir-Ali, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Con Coughlin and Maureen Lipman

John Ware: Insid the Trojan Horse

Norman Lebrecht on Leonard Cohen

Iain Martin: All that's global isn't gold

David Goldman: Is the future Chinese?

Laura Freeman/Tim Congdon/Lisa Hilton/Katharine Birbalsingh/Mara Delius/Nick Cohen/Alexander Woolfson/Marina Gerner/Simon Heffer/Lucasta Miller/Nigel Biggar/Peter Whittle/Sheila Lawlor/Michael Prodger/Jacob Willer/Anne McElvoy/Rick Jones/Edward SkidelskyWilliam Norton/Daisy Dunn/Dominic Lawson/Mark Ronan/Christopher Fildes/John Mills

The guns of August

Sarajevo to Syria: a century of terror and war

1914: Robin Harris and Jeremy Black

2014: Elliott Abrams, Alexander Woolfson, Douglas Murray and Emanuele Ottolenghi

Europe: Shiela Lawlor, Daniel Hannan, Mara Delius, Michael Mosbacher/Poetry: Jonathan Bate on John Clare/Opera: Roger Scruton, Norman Lebrecht/Short story

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