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The principle of trans equality and the movement towards such equality in politics have been about ensuring that how people live and identify is respected and is more important than reducing them to their biological characteristics at birth.
So, fiscal rule number 1 is that we have to live within our means. Fiscal rule number 2 is that our capital borrowing cannot, under the agreement, be more than £450 million; if we try to borrow more, we will be in breach of our fiscal rules.
Their childhood convictions will need to be declared for decades or even the rest of their lives. How can that be right? How can we allow a child’s opportunities to be curbed so severely at such a young age?
The Scottish Government does not believe that the Smith provisions go nearly far enough, but they are nevertheless an important step in providing the Parliament with further levers to improve the lives of the people of Scotland. The Scottish Government’s objective now is to develop a bill that commands broad support and that will be ready for introduction a...
There are anomalies and, statistically, the way to really address the highest number of youngsters living in the most deprived areas would be to get down to primary school level across the country.
We are sent to things such as cardiac arrests, breathing difficulties and medical collapse. We went live on 12 February and since then, although we do not operate 24/7, we have assisted on 133 calls.
The residents experience the traffic congestion and recognise the safety implications, as they live with them on a daily basis. As has become the practice of the promoter, repeating a statement that everything meets safety requirements or providing misleading information is substituted for careful analysis of what actually takes place.
The formal legal position is that we will not be a state that is signatory to those treaties, but the other part of the European Union is the informal structure that rumbles on and the range of other arrangements that mean that the reality that people live under is likely to be no different from one day to the next while the process rumbles on and negotiati...