Smoking
Dear Mary: What to do when a dinner guest won’t turn and chat
Q. I felt uncomfortable during a dinner for 20 in a private house. The young man on my left had…
Will you miss Mad Men? James Delingpole won’t
Mad Men looked great but, as the final season draws to a close, was there really anything to it, wonders James Delingpole
Dear Mary: What can I do about my neighbours’ downmarket recycling?
Q. Since recycling was introduced in our village, the wall at the end of our drive has become the depositing…
Help me become an addict
When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…
Stop "Stoptober"! It's another insidious attack on liberty and free will
Say what you like about the French Revolutionaries but at least they had a poetic imagination. When they wanted a…
The war on e-cigarettes is enough to make me give up giving up
I have been, on and off, a lifelong smoker; but I gave up in January 2009 on the day of…
E-cigarettes are making tobacco obsolete. So why ban them?
The e-cigarette means that tobacco is going the way of the top hat. So what is the medical establishment’s problem with it?
White Dee's diary: From Benefits Street to Downing Street?
There’s no reason why you should have heard of me. No reason why you would have watched a Channel 4…
Alexander Chancellor: The Chinese must save the cigar from extinction
In Dorchester during the Christmas holiday I bought a two-slice electric toaster at Currys. It was a nice little toaster…
The BMA’s bizarre jihad against e-cigarettes
What strategy should we adopt to cope with the British Medical Association? Its members kill more people each year than…
Alexander Chancellor: Seduced by a Benson & Hedges packet aged 16
The government has done a puzzling U-turn over its plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. It had seemed determined…
