Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home

Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home

Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier

Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

Roger Morgan on a peer’s review of Brussels’ weaknesses
The BUAV welcomes public discussion about animal experiments (“Animal research under the microscope”, 17 October). However, the fundamental flaw in universities hosting the Big Animal Research Debate...

Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community

Major report on selective education used ‘inappropriate’ references
Nicholas Till’s lament for the North Norfolk coastline and for pastoral sentiment in opera is well taken (“Elegy in a country churchyard”, 24 October). The lonely coast at Cley is ever more heavily...

Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an ‘unlicensed private career college’ and told to halt teaching

On Halloween, Richard Sugg reveals how early stories of death from paralysing nightmares morphed into tales of vampires
Daniel Sokol makes a number of useful observations on university appeals (“Students have a right to redress, so give them a fair hearing”, Opinion, 24 October). Like Sokol and others before him, the...

South African university’s research into academic department’s role in apartheid draws criticism from Afrikaaners

Time is a harsh mistress but there’s much to look forward to, says the doyenne of the Left

Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi ponder the problems that could sink the subject

Kitty Stewart finds wisdom in a study of progress and disparity between nations and people