Butter’s Back, Coffee’s a Cure, and Science Has Lost the Plot Again

After decades of being told butter was basically edible death and coffee a one-way ticket to heart palpitations, new research now says both might actually help you live longer. Which is brilliant news

Just when you think science has finished its little dance on the grave of common sense, along comes another report to spin your entire breakfast routine into chaos. Because apparently, coffee, that dark jitter-inducing sludge Mrs G downs like holy water; is now good for you. And butter? Glorious yellow, full-fat butter? That too is back in fashion, while those virtuous tubs of low-fat spread you’ve been scraping across your toast like a Cold War ration… are now officially worse than licking the inside of a margarine factory pipe.