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The cost of launching cargo into space is falling faster than shipping costs did during the 19th-century steamship revolution. Cambridge researchers predict that launch costs could fall by more than 90% by 2040, paving the way for a space economy producing food, fuel and infrastructure in orbit.

After all, he looked suave in the royal box at Wimbledon, can drive an Aston Martin and, at the current rate, it will take another ten years before the film is made.

VAST had a huge and really profitable diamond mine in Zimbabwe. Then Mugabe came along and stole the lot. However, eventually, VAST got some of its stock of uncut diamonds back and shipper them out to Dubai a year ago pending achieving a respectable price. Unfortunately the selling price for diamonds has generally collapsed - vide De Beers closing their major mine in South Africa. I do not know what this means for VAST but it is not encouraging stuff. VAST remains suspended a

I doubt if I have missed anything but obviously recognise that I cannot know everything. However, astonishingly, there is still no evidence that Farage has behaved improperly let alone unlawfully. Today's Times says 6 out of ten (readers? morons? Farage fans? God alone knows) reckon that Farage has broken a law somewhere.

Turned up again in yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Money box. It is obviously failing after taxpayers have spent a lot of their personal money and time achieving all too predictably less than nothing. Stand by for the retreat from lunacy compelled by HMG.

CPI's price has been slaughtered. But there is a limit. This may have occurred yesterday since the price touched 220p and finished at 229p. CPI is now capitalised at £260m. If it had not been for this appalling brouhaha with the Cabinet Office the share price might have been up at around 400p. This may be a guess but it is a starting point. CPI announced on Thursday last that the losses to tidy up the brouhaha will be between £25m and £40m. And this is a small proportion of t

Barry Cryer’s joke: I was told this joke by a blind man. There was a blind parachutist who did jumps for charity. Someone asked him how he knew when he was getting near the ground. 'The lead on my guide dog goes slack,' he said.