Sentences with phrase «honest public debate»

There is still a huge mountain to climb to get a proper open - minded and honest public debate on the issues.

What we lack is an honest public debate that acknowledges the connections, and the difficulties of reconciling public - service commitment with the rule book on one side and the claimed allocative efficiency of public - sector markets on the other.

Pretending that there is an honest public debate about the gay rights agenda is an act of dishonesty.

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Questions directly related to Christian doctrine rarely hit the headlines in Britain these days, and there has been no public theological debate since the furor created by Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God in 1963.

Campbell has called for an honest debate on Europe, including a full public vote on the UK's place in the European Union.

The Education Secretary Justine Greening says there needs to be a more honest debate about the cost of scrapping fees - both in financial terms to the public finances and in removing the funding for extra places.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

A moderate and pragmatic voice in the climate debate, Roger Pielke Jr. argues in this book, The Honest Broker, that scientists deserve this label when they present a variety of options to the public — rather than advocating a single course of action.

Scientists that provide context and are honest about uncertainties tend to be valued as experts in public debates about science.

Predictably, a confused public was left with the impression there was an honest debate taking place, when instead a well - funded propaganda campaign was being waged on independent science.

But since an honest and comprehensive debate would most likely result in a public rejection of the «dangerous man - made global warming» conjecture, then as usual there won't be any real debate.

«The American public deserve [sic] an honest debate that isn't polluted by the best junk science fossil fuel interests can buy,» Markey said in a statement.

Arguing in favor of the law banning lying is the sad irony that quite often those with their hands on the very levers of democracy, free elections and the right to vote — candidates, their handlers, public and special interest groups — don't trust the public to make the right decision based on an honest and robust debate over the issues, but instead find it incumbent to win by smearing the opposing candidate.

But the only way to arrive at any answer to that question is through the process I've laid out above: Free, open, honest debate based on hard facts, conducted with analytical reasoning, and carried out with the interests of the public always at the forefront.