After the Berlin wall

Standing in a small park in south London, not far from the grim Elephant & Castle roundabout, is a huge ugly piece of concrete, covered in graffiti. But this is not some remains of inner-city urban decay waiting for the bulldozer to put it out of its misery. It´s a small section of the Berlin Wall and it´s a museum exhibit. Our children now learn about the Cold War in school history lessons. We should be pleased they´re not learning about the Third World War instead, but it´s always surprising to find something that doesn´t seem that long ago is now part of the school curriculum.