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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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