We've been tracking the economic performance of various sectors in this blog, so it's only right to draw everyone's attention to the fact that manufacturing has just recorded its best performance for six months.
The good news is that this must mean we - and the rest of the world, whose figures also jumped - are in better economic health than had previously been thought, as I've been saying on this blog for a while now (although you can find an economic statistic to back up more or less any point of view if you look). The less grand news is that the Bank of England meets on Thursday to decide whether to put interest rates down again, and this mini-surge will make a very good reason not to do so.
