The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda.

Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause cancer, "similar to cigarette smoke," and so on.

Jeremy Vine is asking if it's time to ban them.

This isn't new – for want of a better word – "information". We covered this last Christmas. Then over the summer, it was folded in with a barrage of "indoor air quality" fear-mongering, only to re-emerge now that the days are getting shorter again.

Sort of like reverse-hibernation.

A trendy wood burning stove almost killed me…they need to be banned before they do anymore damage

…screams the Daily Mail.

I like the word "trendy" — they keep using it — it's so shamelessly manipulative, painting the humble stove as some pretentious luxury accessory, rather than the basic means of heating your home for literal millennia.