Skinny lattes may be bad for us

IN 1955 Britain and Ireland accounted for one-third of the world's tea consumption. Britons are still big tea drinkers, but our share of the tea market has dropped to only 5 per cent of the world's cuppas.

We are still big tea drinkers – 994 cups per capita last year. But they consume 1,214 cups each in Ireland, while the world's champion tea drinkers are now the Iraqis, with 1,219 cups a head despite their troubles.

Instead, Britain has become a l...