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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 November, 2023
      UK welfare reform
      Slaying the worklessness monster is a thankless but crucial task

      While Labour should be grateful that Jeremy Hunt has done some of the heavy lifting, this is a broader issue for UK society

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of Jeremy Hunt stretching his arm to get hold of a shovel that is just outside his reach
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Politics
      Sunak’s next small shift towards stability must be for business

      The Tory right’s credo of permanent revolution sits uneasily with the need for regulatory certainty

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of two people in suits, where one is adjusting his blue tie and pushing the other person’s back. The other person wears a Union Jack bow tie and spring popping spectacles.
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Coronavirus
      Covid inquiry must offer more than lurid revelations

      The real question is why government systems failed when we most needed them

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of the 10 Downing Street door with red hearts pouring out of it, some inscribed with ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour’s hard-won unity is fracturing over Gaza

      Starmer must face down remnants of the Corbynite hard left — and some of his own MPs

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a red rose tied and pulled by strings that look like the Palestine flag on the left side and the Israeli flag on the right side.
    • Saturday, 21 October, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Law and disorder in the family courts

      What can be done to improve the family courts and the lives damaged when parents go to battle over custody of their children?

      A dark, moody illustration of a figure in silhouette holding the scales of justice
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour has smartened up for power — but has yet to be tested

      Starmer has got his people moving in the same direction, but the opposition has not faced real challenge

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of Keir Starmer, with Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendal standing behind him
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak and Starmer fight for the mantle of change

      Labour’s leader has already performed the Kinnock and Smith roles, now he needs to be Blair and inspire

      Illustration of Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak facing off on a poster dressed as old-fashioned boxers, each in his party colours.
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      UK politics
      What do Sunak’s Conservatives stand for now?

      The party famed for its historic capacity to reinvent itself has become an inflexible cult

      Illustration of Rishi Sunak’s legs, which are stood on a Jenga tower, with blocks labelled HS2, net zero, Brexit and Conservative party falling from it
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Healthcare
      Britain should lead in life sciences but NHS inertia is holding it back

      Biobank deadlock is a symptom of the UK’s ailing innovation sector

      Illustration of a person merging with a data chip with lots of red crosses and padlocks in the background
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Instant InsightUK energy
      Cynicism about Sunak’s net zero U-turns is understandable

      Successive leaders have failed to level with voters on the costs of the green transition

      Rishi Sunak’s speech reflected the reality that some of the easiest green wins have been secured already
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Education
      It is a miracle that students aren’t rioting at beleaguered universities

      Innovative new courses and schools show what is sadly missing from over-regulated mainstream higher education

      Illustration of a stack of pound coins that starts to look like an Ancient Greek column towards the top. On the column is a statue of a man holding a degree certificate and wearing a mortar board
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
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      Working It live: How to make a mid-life career change

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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      UK government spending
      School chaos shows the price of Britain’s addiction to shortcuts

      Dodgy materials and poor construction typify a desire to drive down public sector costs via opaque contracts

      Illustration of two children in school uniform standing outside a doorway with red-and-white tape strung across it looking into a derelict classroom where the ceiling is propped up with scaffolding
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Healthcare
      Sickness and work is a disaster that must be fixed

      An increasing number of younger people are suffering disabilities so bad they cannot do a job

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a chair with its front two legs as a man’s legs in suit trousers facing a work desk. The screen on the desk has a union jack screensaver and the tea cup has a sad emoji on it
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      Philanthropy
      Charities could lead a new golden age of civic society

      People often wrongly assume that the answer to every problem is action by state agencies.

      Illustration of a person drowning in the sea, reaching up for one of many life rings above him, some of which display charity logos
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Personal & Household Goods
      The fight for the right to repair

      Citizens must become campaigners for better, longer-lasting smart machines

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a printer being repaired and calibrated.
    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
      Climate change
      The climate crisis requires a wartime footing

      Only by invoking the spirit of joint endeavour against a common enemy can we make the radical changes we need

      Illustration of people in early 20th-century clothing standing in front of a Lord Kitchener recruitment poster that says ‘Your Planet Needs You’
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Climate change
      The arrival of the Anthropocene is our final warning on climate

      We have instigated a sixth mass extinction of other species, changed the biosphere and altered ocean chemistry

      Illustration of Earth as a cartoon-style bomb with lit fuse. Fingerprints are smudged on the Earth
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      NHS England
      More doctors and nurses alone will not heal the NHS

      Increased staff — without good management — does not mean better outcomes for patients

      Patients and doctors gather with question bubbles displaying NHS
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      UK society
      Britain must break out of its doom loop

      Brexit, Covid and terrible governments have left their scars but our national despondency is becoming a trap

      A man in cricketing whites with a big moustache stands under a red, white and blue umbrella with black clouds and rain pouring out of the umbrella onto him while it is sunny everywhere else
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      UK property
      Making downsizing easier could help Britain’s housing crisis

      Shuffling the pack by liberating under-occupied homes will have a bigger impact than building new ones

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of three houses - the largest is at the bottom, the middle sized one on the top of the large one while the small house is stuck on top of the middle size one. There is a tall ladder for residents to climb up to the small house on top.
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Boris Johnson
      Boris Johnson’s farce reaches its final act — it’s time he left for good

      Without a shred of apology or any nod to the public’s anger, the former prime minister has lost his political touch

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      UK social care
      An ageing society can’t turn its back on social care any longer

      Governments have promised to tackle the crisis for 25 years, but it’s never an election winner

      Illustration of a frail elderly man with glasses sitting at a table in front of a paisley wallpapered wall
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      UK politics
      Every big business needs its own Chief Political Officer

      Rolling crises have ensured that government relations is no longer a backwater department

      Illustration of a man in a suit looking through an iron telescope on a metal scaffolding in a snake-like structure, with the viewers’ eyes visible in the right and left lenses at the top
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      UK industrial strategy
      A bureaucratic tangle has replaced the UK’s industrial policy

      Helping with regulation, intellectual property and infrastructure is the least the government can do

      An illustration of a horseman wearing a blue striped suit and cowboy hat, carrying an umbrella and with a blower hat in the air. The horse has a union jack flag around its neck and is on its hind legs, while the rider tries to throw a lasso at a depiction of an industrial complex
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