It's been 20 years since Labour had a proper first principles debate about economic policy.
These twin principles, debated in head-scratching terms by professional economists, essentially explain why Intel maintains a lead in high-performance chips, why Apple sustains a large lead in music players and why Google's search engine remains a crowd pleaser.
At the point of first principles, these debates have broached political theories of the state and even philosophies of science that inform critiques of rationality, social justice and power.
In these situations the researcher can only make the best judgement she can, informed by knowledge of the particular context ('thick ethical description' [ 135]) and awareness of the ethical principles and debates relating to each case.
"But because politics is based on interests, not principles, the debate now is over whether the bully crossed the whole line, or just stepped over with his toe".
John Ryley, from Sky News, said the party leaders had agreed in principle to debates this time around and opinion polls suggested the public backed them.
The basic idea of fairness should once again be the most important principle for debate over the state of the British economy.
In a far-sighted recommendation, the Macpherson inquiry recommended in 1999 that the double jeopardy principle deserved "debate and reconsideration", perhaps by the law commission.
Well before high questions of principle are debated, however, there's the practical point of whether GDS and the ministerial backing it has are sufficient to keep up the momentum that the data agenda had in central government under Francis Maude and Hancock.
In New York Times v. Sullivan, in which the First Amendment was used to rein in the law of libel, the Supreme Court focused on the "profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open".
