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    Camilla Cavendish

    Contributing editor and columnist

    A former head of the Downing Street policy unit under Prime Minister David Cameron, she is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, and a winner of the Harold Wincott and Paul Foot awards for journalism.

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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Metropolitan Police Service UK
      There are glimmers of hope for reform after the exposure of rotten Met culture

      The successful transformation of Northern Ireland’s police service demonstrates that London can expect better from its disgraced force

    • 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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