Camilla Cavendish

Friday, 3 February, 2023

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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