This was a worthy sequel to the previous day, when, as one wit remarked, a party with just one MP had managed a backbench rebellion – as Ukip's solitary presence in Westminster, Douglas Carswell resisted party pressure to take the parliamentary subsidy known as Short money.
Over the past six years, oil and coal producers in the US received more than double the subsidy of renewable energy companies.
"He's an even bigger subsidy junkie than I thought," wrote Chakrabortty.
The UK could produce as much as half of its electricity needs from the waters around our islands and although we have several companies with world-leading expertise, we continue to invest less in marine energy than the annual subsidy to London's two main opera houses.
The Guardian has found that: A proposed Shell petrochemical refinery in Pennsylvania is in line for $1.6bn £1bnn) in state subsidy, according to a deal struck in 2012 when the company made an annual profit of $26.8bn.
You may believe that it is an unfair travel subsidy for users who are mostly professional men earning more than £50k anyway.
I might argue that renewable energy deserves a subsidy.
In previous reports we also gave equal prominence to the subsidy to owners of large air conditioners (for example in Fair pricing for power).
David Cameron had previously hailed the subsidy deal between the French state-owned EDF and the UK government as "a very big day for our country".
But for unemployed people under 30, this "age of opportunity" means waiting six months to get the dole, then receiving a payment only for six months and only if they work for it, and then losing the payment again for the next six months, during which a potential employers may get a wage subsidy.
The pension age will rise to 70 by 2035, but addressing criticism that older people often find it hard to get a job the government is offering a new wage subsidy to employers taking on a worker over 50 who has been unemployed for more than six months.
