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The Executive says that it wants to run the best small country in the world. Well, it will not achieve that by being the best small-minded Government in the world.The bill is petty, pathetic and perverse, and it should be rejected by the Parliament.
However, when we get together informally we avoid talking shop. We think it best for the independence of both our operations to avoid talking about the specifics of issues that we are dealing with.
The basic plea that I have made from the beginning of the process is this: do not box us in. The people who are best able to assess the licensing situation in the locale are the people on the local licensing board.
What emerged from that was a loop that served the key locations. The background to that is best explained in the recent response to key question 1, which was issued on the Friday before last.
We ought to probe it rather than just assume that it is true because people say that it is true.Spending on education has grown for 20 years or so, but there is a huge debate among education researchers about the best way of tackling inequalities. Some believe that the best way is simply to put money into education; others believe that the best way is to target inequalities.
That would give us a mechanism by which to learn and find out about best practice and trends over time, especially as new technology that we have the chance to befriend kicks in.