Vape use falls by 400,000 in 12 months – amid fears unfounded health worries are scaring people off

The number of vape users in Britain has dropped by 400,000 in just one year, according to campaigners. The charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) blamed a misguided belief vaping is just as harmful as cigarettes for the fall. In March, YouGov polling showed there were 3.2million e-cigarette users in Britain – down from … Read more

Vape use falls by 400,000 in 12 months – amid fears unfounded health worries are scaring people off

The number of vape users in Britain has dropped by 400,000 in just one year, according to campaigners. The charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) blamed a misguided belief vaping is just as harmful as cigarettes for the fall. In March, YouGov polling showed there were 3.2million e-cigarette users in Britain – down from … Read more

Chairman of Ocado STUART ROSE: Stop scaring us into an economic abyss

Bedlam. Shortly after 10pm on Thursday, I wandered outside after a business dinner in Central London and tried to get home. The streets were packed with people and cars. No one was going anywhere fast. The buses were full. The nearest Underground station was backed up with a long queue. Everywhere pedestrians were packed together … Read more

Chairman of Ocado STUART ROSE: Stop scaring us into an economic abyss

Bedlam. Shortly after 10pm on Thursday, I wandered outside after a business dinner in Central London and tried to get home. The streets were packed with people and cars. No one was going anywhere fast. The buses were full. The nearest Underground station was backed up with a long queue. Everywhere pedestrians were packed together … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Man in ‘plague doctor’ outfit seen scaring children

The ‘plague doctors’ are back! Police probe creepy 17th Century physician seen scaring children near duck pond – weeks after spate of sightings across UK at start of pandemic Gloucestershire Police want to offer advice on the ‘appropriateness’ of the outfit Mask similar to what doctors wore when treating people with Bubonic Plague Similar sightings … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When will TV news stop scaring us to death over coronavirus crisis? 

Back in 2004, in the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, I was invited to take part in a special edition of the BBC’s Question Time, live from Miami. Your Uncle Rich managed to cause uproar when I described my fellow panellist, the agitprop, anti-Bush, American film-maker Michael Moore, as ‘the Lord Haw-Haw of the … Read more