Much work still needs to be done on the standard, particularly around the informed consent its proposers vow it will adhere to.
I did an Any Questions with Rod two or three years back, and more recently we partnered up for an Intelligence Squared debate where we opposed the motion "This House Believes We've Never Had It So Good", roundly trashing its proposers, a posturing Tory MP absurdly dubbed Jesse Norman, and professional sibling-cum-popinjay Rachel Johnson.
And again, transparency is something best experienced in person, which when it came to the net neutrality rule, was something its proposers avoided.
Its proposers say the journey could answer profound questions: because it is one of the most distant members of the family, Neptune's fabric is more likely to match the original material of the solar system.
The East London Line extension, which its proposers claim could contribute to a £10bn regeneration, was also planned long before the bid was launched.
This year, only five composite motions were debated, and pressure from the party leadership on its proposers ensured that the only controversial one supporting proportional representation (PR)—was not put to the vote.Few votes did not mean no debate.
But here it is necessary to be as hard on many of the opponents of war as on its proposers, as well as to clear away the misleading idea that evidence that Saddam is concealing weapons of mass destruction is at the centre of the argument.
The heuristic method against which the comparison took place was subjected by its proposers to a systematic evaluation in comparison with alternative heuristics, and shown to perform well [2, 3].
Its original proposer was John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, yet it had no support in the White House, and virtually none in the Democratic Congress.
