It has long been said to be damaging to the self-confidence of women. But it appears that society's obsession with beauty and perfection is having a bad effect on food, too.

A shout out to all my fiends in Oz...enjoy the day and make it beaut! Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free We've golden soil and wealth for toil, Our home is girt by sea: Our land abounds in nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare, In history's page let every stage Advance Australia fair, In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia fair. Beneath our radia...

Attempts to reform planning rules "perversely misunderstand" the value of the country's rural and urban historic sites, according of the head of the UK's biggest heritage lobby group.

Those who value the beauty and history of our countryside have been alarmed by the government's proposed National Planning Policy Framework.

There’s been an intriguing, if minor, development in the HS2 case this afternoon. The Guardian reports that the Department of Transport has miraculously found £500 million to spend on 1.5 miles of tunnelling to reduce aesthetic damage to the Chilterns, an area of outstanding natural beauty. The decision on HS2 was expected before Christmas, but Transport Secretary Justine Greening ...

A string of failed administrations and a lack of public appetite for reform have made Italy almost ungovernable, says Graeme Archer.

Over a year ago, I mused about the possibility that the wristwatch might die out as a result of new technologies. For the moment, I give that possibility a fat zero. Although I can barely afford a beauty like this Patek Phillipe or Vacheron Constantin on my income, I have always been partial to watches. They are some of the oldest examples of Man’s genius for matching precision, practica...

Swedish beauty whose affair with JFK began weeks before his marriage – and carried on just after If we’re going to have newspaper obituaries for everyone JFK shagged we’re going to need several new newspapers, aren’t we?

Hands Off Our Land: Coalition's reforms fail to consider beauty of built environment, according to Prince Charles's charity.

BBC4’s Story of Clay showed how rewarding it can be to turn a substance that is ‘literally earth’into an object of beauty.