That's laudable from a distributional standpoint, but without a stronger economy where will the profits come from to provide the tax revenue he's seeking?
The shorter time to publication and high publication rate in Health Technology Assessment is laudable; ensuring information from research is easily accessible and widely available is important because it facilitates its use, increases its impact and consequently its value to society.
The desire to protect children from smoke is laudable.
Calling for investors to divest from polluters is laudable but won't be enough.
The renewed energy behind providing quality higher education to people from disadvantaged backgrounds is laudable.
When it comes in the guise of individual "tax planning" it is laudable, even cuddly – think ISAs, exempt from all UK taxation.
The ambition is laudable, but Tim Miller's movie, far from seeming reckless and loose-limbed, comes across as pathologically calculated, measuring out its nastiness to the last drop.
Making personnel decisions less personal by removing human bias from the process is laudable, but only if the decision-making systems are, themselves, untainted by those biases.
From a political perspective, this turn is laudable; doing something about climate change is certainly better than doing nothing.
