Our man in the Beeb

+The Paris Olympics have been heralded by what are clearly some terrorist attacks on the rail network around the city, bringing things to a halt. Perhaps this was not terribly surprising. But it was somewhat irritating that the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner said it couldn’t be ruled out that they were Russian orchestrated attacks, or perhaps done by some ‘extreme left-wing group.’ Frank’s opinion is left unchallenged. Nobody on the Today programme even had the gumption to ask him whose speculation it was that we were meant to be digesting. Maybe that’s because they already knew.
 
+Well it’s not all bad. It seems Ed Miliband is to give the go-ahead for more community owned energy schemes, perhaps with the backing of Great British Energy. So here in the UK we may be able to catch up with what the Danes and Germans have been doing for decades. But in our great British way, will there be limits placed on the size of these schemes and how their profits can be shared? The big companies won’t want to see a plethora of decent sized community owned schemes eating into their market and will lobby hard to keep things under control. It happened the last time Labour was in power (speaking from experience). I hope lessons have been learnt.