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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, 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

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Every big business needs its own Chief Political Officer

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

    • 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

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      UK employment
      The great workers’ rights competition is holding us back

      Too many new rules will fuel the burgeoning legal and compliance industry, which is not the kind of growth the UK needs

    • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      By meddling with justice, UK politicians are undermining it

      Both Conservatives in Westminster and the SNP at Holyrood are weakening our legal safeguards

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      Civil Service UK
      The Whitehall Rolls-Royce desperately needs a service

      Relations between civil servants and ministers have plummeted to new depths — a revolution is required

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Demographics and population
      Weaponising population growth is a dangerous and regressive road

      Countries that are losing demographic ground may fall back on old tricks to force women to bear children

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      UK general election
      Negative campaigning drags politics down to the gutter

      One of the risks for all parties is low election turnout, because voters can’t stand any of them

    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Christianity
      Welcome to the age of DIY spirituality

      As organised religion declines, we are searching for solace in the strangest places

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      NHS England
      Sharing patient data is something to be celebrated, not feared

      Easier access to NHS records will save lives — but health executives must make their case to the public

    • 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

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