Pg 85 Mail on Sunday
Smart Meters plain Dumb
... Costs each household £420 ...£10 gain
..and hackable

Some major trickery yesterday with R4Today vs Andrew Norfolk and the Times

His article on Times front page yesterday was a Sarah Champion quote
- Left ‘failing to confront truth of sex crimes’
+ 2 page full interview ‘I’d rather be called a racist than turn a blind eye to child abuse’
+ Times Editorial : “Truth Hurts” : “Rotherham: Leftist media organizations instinctively recast the story as one of Islamophobia”

Bringing a point
"It's not a fear of racism that drives Labour's attitude to child sex - but the loss of male Muslim votes"

So you think that R4Today would invite him on to discuss those stories
No instead they acted as if they are the PR dept of the Labour Party defending its reputation

#1 First they brought on the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to talk about the foster case
He claimed "2 incidents never happened, she didn't have the cross removed from her, and she wasn't prevented from eating bacon, but I know very little about the case."
(strange thing to say , cos the court did accept those claims)

#2 So later at 8:45am they brought on Andrew Norfolk
And began with a hostile attitude
Their opening line : “This is islamophobia isn’t it ? ...14 areas have no Muslim fosterers”
AN : “Actually we broke that story that 14 areas have only white fosterers”
R4 : “Well The TH Mayor just said that no cross was removed and she wasn’t prevented from eating bacon”
AN ” He also said he was not aware of the full facts and …”
R4 ” I’ll stop you there we’re out of time ”
(Next item was chit chat with their Newsnight mates about the sleeper train being redecorated.)

So the real issues were not discussed ..BTW The Times Editorial also laid into the Guardian and called it incorrect.

@Tomo "not for profit"
hah ha
"Dutch firm invest £160m to 800k homes solar panels to get £132m profit a year"
- yep really good for the uk more more out!"
(i haven't traced his profit figure yet)

Maas is really a division of ABN AMRO 75% owned by the Dutch government.
bbc

@Pcar I heard the 800K solar pabnelmstory on BBC radio

But look at the article you gave , it's title says 8 million and the body says 800,000
But the articles numbers seem all over the place to me
"The Government welcomed £160 million of capital spending by Dutch firm Maas Capital, which will help fund solar panels from UK company Solarplicity."

"Over 1,000 new jobs are to be created under a £1 billion programme to install solar panels on social housing across England and Wales."

Well 800K homes with a £1K million pounds = each set costs £800 ..that seems too small

"Around 100,000 households will receive panels in the next 18 months, reducing their energy bills by an average of £240 a year"
Wonder if that £160m pays for those 100K homes making it £1,600 per home
I was expecting £4K per home

And at that rate of 100K per 18 months , then 800K will take 12 years.