More laughter in the FT

No, I know, the FT isn’t where we normally go for laughs but this amuses:

Marketing for Duchy Originals’ new herbal remedies has been banned after failing to prove its efficacy.

The product is the first in the UK to fall foul of new European regulations governing alternative medicines.

Of course, there shouldn’t be such rules in the first place. If you want to take some tincture of herbs because it makes you feel better then you should be able to do so. Whether it actually makes you better is irrelevant, it’s how you the consumer feel about it. But who got caught in the first ban is, well, piquant at least.