Camilla Cavendish

Friday, 24 March, 2023

Friday, 17 March, 2023

UK politics & policy

Labour and the Tories seem stuck in a big state echo chamber

The UK needs a conversation about tax, spending and the public sector but the main parties lack defined visions

Saturday, 4 March, 2023

Technology sector

Humanity is sleepwalking into a neurotech disaster

Who has access to our brain data, and what they’re doing with it, should concern us all

Friday, 24 February, 2023

UK agriculture

Wilting support for the Tories in farming areas reflects neglect

As supermarkets ration salad, agriculture needs help from a government that cares

Friday, 17 February, 2023

UK devolution

Devolution has stoked brutality and division in our politics

As she resigned, Nicola Sturgeon complained of the toxic atmosphere that she and her party have contributed to in Scotland

Friday, 17 February, 2023

The Weekend Essay

My 20-year journey through the NHS

As a patient and Number 10 adviser, Camilla Cavendish has witnessed the service’s struggles at first hand. Here she charts a way to safeguard its future

Tuesday, 14 February, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

Time to Think — what went wrong at the Tavistock gender clinic

Hannah Barnes’s sensitive and powerful investigation of good intentions gone awry at the London children’s service

Friday, 3 February, 2023

Retirement

Tempting back older workers means ditching business as usual

Stereotypes about curmudgeons have to go, along with dreary jobs and the expectation of a work-free retirement

Friday, 27 January, 2023

UK politics & policy

Sunak’s failure to sack Zahawi adds insult to all our injuries

Tax avoidance and asset-boosting policies contribute to the widespread view that politicians can’t be trusted

Friday, 20 January, 2023

Education

ChatGPT will force school exams out of the dark ages

Too much of our testing regime still remains fixated on being able to regurgitate information

Friday, 13 January, 2023

Ageing Populations

The retirement revolution is only just beginning

Expectation of a long and healthy old age is unequally distributed, piling up advantages for the affluent

Friday, 6 January, 2023

UK social care

We need to see social care as an investment not a cost

Other countries have found big answers to managing ageing populations and it’s time Britain did, too

Friday, 30 December, 2022

Parenting and families

Ambitious parents are instrumental in childhood’s modern malaise

Parental anxiety is contagious but we constantly push for our children’s successes and intervene in their failures

Friday, 16 December, 2022

Healthcare

An exhausted NHS limps towards its high noon

During Covid, the health system burst free from its bureaucratic shackles, but the status quo has roared back

Friday, 9 December, 2022

Rail

Train strike chaos is a true nightmare before Christmas

We live in an age of extraordinary human endeavours, but it seems impossible to run eight carriages along a fixed line

Friday, 25 November, 2022

Ageing Populations

The Great Unretirement is coming

Older affluent workers are leaving Britain’s labour force — employers and the government must get them back

Friday, 18 November, 2022

Conservative Party UK

Economic competence trumps Tory ideology — for now

Jeremy Hunt aims to restore grown-up government, but will a divided party unite behind him?

Friday, 11 November, 2022

National Health Service

The NHS is failing the nurses who keep it afloat

The threatened pay strike obscures a wider refusal to value, reward and retain experienced staff

Friday, 11 November, 2022

The Weekend Essay

What happens next to Britain’s Ukrainian refugees?

Camilla Cavendish talks to hosts and guests whose lives have been changed by Homes for Ukraine — and finds clues to future immigration policy

Friday, 4 November, 2022

UK politics & policy

Sinister curbs on the freedom to protest are wrong

Some activists are playing straight into the hands of a British government bent on introducing draconian new laws

Friday, 28 October, 2022

Rishi Sunak

It’s ‘nerd vs nerd’ as British politics returns to normal

Sunak may have stopped the rollercoaster, but the question of how to restore economic stability remains

Friday, 21 October, 2022

Conservative Party UK

Conservatives must focus on the national interest — not Boris Johnson’s

After delivering two dreadful parodies of government, the Tories must restore calm

Friday, 14 October, 2022

Liz Truss

Truss won’t restore Britain’s credibility simply by changing chancellor

Reversals may be the right thing to do, but more is needed to bring back confidence

Friday, 7 October, 2022

Liz Truss

The Truss revolution is eating itself

The prime minister is pursuing iconoclasm for its own sake and zealotry with no credo

Friday, 30 September, 2022

UK general election

This is Keir Starmer’s moment — but victory is not yet assured

Although the Labour leader has the biggest poll lead for 21 years, he needs to tell us what he would do in government

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