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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, 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

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    UK business & economy
    This was a railroading, electioneering mini-Budget

    The stage is now set for a head-on battle between the Treasury and the Bank of England

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    UK employment
    Britain’s jobs ‘miracle’ hides some uncomfortable truths

    The latest data shows that growing numbers of people are not seeking work at all

  • Friday, 9 September, 2022
    UK energy
    Truss must rekindle Britain’s spirit of sacrifice as winter approaches

    The new PM’s energy price freeze is a blunt instrument, but extraordinary times call for unusual measures

  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    National Health Service
    The NHS will make or break the next prime minister

    Only the health service treats a highly trained, dedicated workforce so badly — no wonder we’re losing the war for talent

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Climate change
    The energy crisis is making the green movement’s case

    We are at an unexpected tipping point in the long campaign to force polluters to pay and slow climate change

  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    Utilities
    Privatising water was never going to work

    As customers, we are captive to inefficient and badly regulated providers — urgent change is needed

  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    Conservative Party UK
    Conservative leadership rivals square up for a summer of sparring

    Rishi Sunak risks looking slick and aloof to a wary membership as Liz Truss goes on the attack over tax and spend

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