Given that we think, as most of us seem to do, that the production of such goods as cars, vacuum cleaners, and frozen vegetables should take place in a regime of market competition, why do so many among us nevertheless agree that it makes sense to exclude the production of money from these same forces? Why must the production of money be entrusted to a monopoly called the central bank? - My thanks...

Yesterday James Dyson, maker of expensive vacuum cleaners, said that the UK needed to Make Things, lamenting the 'decline' of manufacturing industry. This demonstrates profound ignorance of the economy, development and what people actually do when they go to work. Let's ignore the hypocrisy of this for a moment - Dyson himself manufactures his irritating and ugly yellow and grey objects in Malaysi...

HOSPITALS in the Lothians will receive £52,000 from a government pot of £400,000 to pay for steam cleaners.

New steam cleaners will provide a modern and efficient way of carrying out specialist cleaning.

Until today, there were two of the biggest in the world in my constituency. Now there are three. I am in awe at the technology of the new £12 recycling facility on Newport Docks. It eats dead vacuum cleaners, radios,...