It’s 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a historic moment that reunified Germany and triggered a series of events that would change the world.

At the time, political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously declared the moment the wall fell as “the end of history”. Its demise, he argued, drew a line under ideological arguments about how nations would live. Liberal democracy had emerged from the fray as “the final form of human government”. For a while it looked like he might be right, but rumbling doubts about neoliberalism that emerged in the 1990s have grown to a full-scale backlash today. Forces on the left and right are challenging liberal democracy and it now feels like all the cards have been thrown in the air again. We’ve been looking at how that argument is playing out in the 21st century.

And while it may not have marked the end of history, the end of the wall did have interesting repercussions in Africa and gave birth to the world’s most famous techno scene, as young people from either side of Berlin came together to dance in the space left behind by the demolished landmark. However, it’s also the case that divisions between East and West Germany persist, even today.

Take a look into the fascinating history of how French women explored their political and creative identities in the late 18th and 19th centuries by starting their own journals. In some ways, these publications were precursors to the women’s magazines of the modern era, but at a time when women had no meaningful rights of their own, they were a revolutionary accomplishment.

This week we’ve also been snooping around Labour’s “warm homes” policy, scandalising with raunchy dancing and keeping it indy with craft beers.

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