Is cosmetic surgery now a normal part of modern life?

As more and more people are having cosmetic surgery, is it really time to accept liposuction and Botox as… normal?

Could bankers save the Great Barrier Reef?

If, as green groups have assessed, the Galilee Basin resources are one of a number of global ‘carbon bombs’, then it seems the only people likely to save the planet are bankers

Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls

In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums

A suggestion for Burberry’s next line: toxin-free fashion

Greenpeace has found hazardous chemicals in Burberry clothes – it should, like its some of its rivals, join our Detox campaign

London is a property developers’ paradise. And ordinary people are being priced out

That we are heading for a crisis is not in doubt, but the huge rents on the government’s Build to Rent scheme are hardly going to help