Phil Taylor

Much of the commentary about last week’s London fares rise ignored the fundamentals and focused on distractions. This piece for the Guardian’s Comment is free blog is an attempt the explore those fundamentals.
I don’t want fares to go up, I wish that TfL could just learn to control its costs. [...]

Bashed out a quick piece for the Guardian’s Comment is free blog this afternoon, here. You can see the Mayor’s press release here and the Standard has various pieces here and here. The BBC, unusually, has called it right with their headline here.

This is probably my last Comment is free piece for the Guardian for a while.

My latest Comment is free piece for the Guardian tries to answer the question as to why people should vote for Boris Johnson.

My latest Comment is free piece for the Guardian looks at the Mayor’s piggy bank – the London Devempment Agency or LDA.
On Wednesday the FT were quoting Steve Norris on the LDA. He said:
It is the most dysfunctional body that most of us can think of.

The Guardian’s Comment is free people have kindly published this piece from me tonight. Essentially I point out that it is all very well the Mayor claiming to be competent but three of his biggest “achievements” do rather undermine that claim.

On Monday I drove round to Edmonton to take part in the final launch event for Boris’ campaign. I wrote it up overnight and submitted it to the Comment is free people but it didn’t get published until today. Oh well.

Having spent yesterday morning going into the City to see Boris’ “The Cost of Livingstone” event and then seeing the coverage of the Mayor’s transport event in the press during the day, see his speech here, I have sought to link the two together and question the Mayor’s claim of executive competence in this piece [...]

Today the Guardian Comment is free blog has published the piece below from me. They changed the title and added an intro that slightly garbled the point of what I was trying to say but it was very sporting of them anyway.
I have reproduced the article below so that I can put [...]

I went into town yesterday morning to listen to Boris’ crime manifesto launch. It was a treat to be in the 28th floor conference suite at Millbank Tower. It has 270 degree views of the London and the Thames which looked magnificent in the sunshine and receding mist.

I wrote a report [...]