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Phil Taylor: When 88 per cent of students got their first choice university place on results day, was a U-turn really necessary?

Ofqual came up with a technical solution to a complex problem, and yet it was not able to convince the rest of the education sector to back its judgement.

Comment, Highlights | By Phil Taylor | 18 August 2020 at 6:30 am | 54 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 3) The party’s £20 billion of NHS “cuts” – as it likes to call them

These savings were desperately needed to make Darling’s books balance. They were put in Labour’s 2010 manifesto.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 7 May 2020 at 3:30 pm | 8 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 2) How Darling planned to cut capital spending by more than half

His cuts were so shocking that, in his own Budget speech in June 2010, George Osborne said that there would be no further such reductions.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 6 May 2020 at 4:30 pm | 6 comments

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 1) How Brown’s Government planned £94 billion of cuts

As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 5 May 2020 at 3:00 pm | 38 comments

Phil Taylor: The UN report on Britain’s ‘digital workhouse’ is built on naked misuse of statistics

Professor Philip Alston’s wilfully slanted conclusions have done a disservice both to those genuinely struggling with Universal Credit and those trying to fix it.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 25 May 2019 at 1:00 pm | 121 comments

Phil Taylor: In its bid for bleakness, Labour’s broadcast is both glib and deceptive

Setting flimsy evidence and distorted statistics to a depressing soundtrack does nothing for their credibility.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 14 February 2019 at 2:00 pm | 20 comments

Phil Taylor: The rise in rough sleeping has halted at last

The challenge is complex. New factors such as poor EU migrants and increasing drug use are driving it.

Local Government | By Phil Taylor | 6 February 2019 at 6:10 am | 7 comments

Phil Taylor: Fire deaths dropped 28 per cent last year – but don’t expect to hear that number being reported

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was a shocking exception to a trend of improvement in safety. Fire deaths are down below 250 a year, the second lowest on record.

Local Government | By Phil Taylor | 12 November 2018 at 6:10 am | 6 comments

Phil Taylor: The Labour MP going after the Grenfell inquiry judge has questions of her own to answer

Emma Dent Coad was a director of the company that runs Kensington and Chelsea’s council housing stock – with all the legal responsibilities that implies.

Local Government | By Phil Taylor | 5 July 2017 at 5:00 pm | 34 comments

Phil Taylor: Much of what you have read about the causes of the Grenfell Tower disaster is unproven – or else plain wrong

Management of the block was not farmed out to some profiteering, Rachmanite landlord. It was run by a body on which tenants themselves were in a majority.

Comment, Highlights | By Phil Taylor | 22 June 2017 at 6:20 am | 118 comments

Phil Taylor: Patient satisfaction tells the true story of the Government’s NHS record

It’s no wonder Opposition campaigning on the health service isn’t cutting through when between 87 and 97 per cent of users would recommend it to friends and family.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 10 April 2017 at 4:00 pm | 33 comments

Phil Taylor: Why we mustn’t have a National Care Service

It would simply replicate all the worst faults of the NHS and create a new set of problems.

Comment, Highlights | By Phil Taylor | 15 January 2017 at 6:30 am | 65 comments

Phil Taylor: Hunt is right about a seven day working NHS

This is a straight industrial dispute about pay, and high falutin rhetoric about patient safety, privatisation and all the rest is just that.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 17 February 2016 at 11:00 am | 64 comments

Phil Taylor: Integrate emergency services, but don’t try to get firemen to do councils’ work

Fire deaths are only a third of what they were in the 1980s.

Local Government | By Phil Taylor | 8 September 2015 at 6:15 am | 7 comments

Phil Taylor: Enough of the Bevan myth. Let’s hear it for Henry Willink, the Conservative who proposed the NHS

Hagiographies of the post-war Labour Government are misplaced.

Comment | By Phil Taylor | 7 July 2015 at 12:00 pm | 17 comments

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