Microgeneration And Feed-In Tariffs

- 100,000 British homes now have microgeneration, mainly solar thermal panels that heat water, and we have no feed-in tariff. In Germany, more than a million households have microgeneration, and they, and 14 other European countries have a feed-in tariff. It's pretty clear what we need to do, so why is Labour framing a feed-in tariff as a regulatory nightmare?

- Should we have edible urban landscapes?

- Jacqui Smith, first female Home Secretary, sidelined over 42-day detention compromise negotiations. Senior female correspondants sidelined by BBC on 10 O'Clock News bulletins.

- David Strahan, The Telegraph

All the signs are that we have reached the foothills of global oil peak – the moment production flattens and then goes into terminal decline. The facts are stark: the amount discovered has been falling for 40 years; for every barrel we find each year, we now guzzle three; output is already falling in over 60 of the world's 98 oil producing countries; and global production has been essentially flat, at just under 86 million barrels a day, since early 2005; serious analysts now forecast $200 per barrel. What is it that Gordon Brown doesn't get?