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I don't think this has been mentioned here before, but last week Peter Hitchens (look him up, he has lots of...things to say), wrote an article about what would have happened if the Berlin Wall had not fallen.
The early part of it isn't too terrible, although the fact that the Soviet Union still exists still allows Barack Obama to be elected President is unlikely. As the piece goes on, the situation in Britain becomes what can only be described as Hitchen's dreams come true, when Norman Tebbit becomes Prime Minister and the Labour Party is destroyed. Interestingly, he says that the SLD (the new opposition) only made gains in the 1996 election-presumably meaning that the tories won a 5th term(!). Domestically, the continuing cold war somehow causes the return of grammar schools as well as a return to policemen being on the beat (presumably looking for communists).
Finally, Hitchens sums up, saying that if the Berlin Wall had not fallen, the Labour party would probably have been destroted, and so maybe the Wall and the Cold War were not such bad things after all.
I would love to know what other people thought of the article.