First our woodburners, now our hobs...we are losing our small comforts that make daily life bearable

[#Dobe~ClasSy!☠]

e felt it coming, didn’t we? One week they banned our woodburning stoves, then it was our diesel cars – and now it’s our gas hobs. Yesterday, the Government’s climate-change advisory body advised that gas hobs and boilers must be banned in all new homes by 2025 so that the UK meets its legally binding environmental targets. I do see that advisors need to keep coming up with virtue-signalling initiatives to justify their salaries and long commutes, but it does seem particularly cruel that at this time, when we’re all sleepless from political uncertainty, we’re being made to feel guilty about the small comforts that make daily life bearable, like the age-old pleasure of cooking over a flame. ...