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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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  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer’s opportunity to ride the Trump rollercoaster

    A big question hanging over Britain’s prospects is whether the prime minister can grow on the job

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves sit in a rollercoaster car as it nears the top of a mount
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Health sector
    Wellness is the new status symbol — but the quest has its downsides

    In this booming industry it can be hard to know when you’re being sold snake oil

    Illustration of jogger with a clock chained to their foot and a big smiley emoji stuck on their torso.
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    UK society
    Boys and young men are in crisis — but it’s adults who need educating

    The real problem is one that hand-wringing over ‘toxic masculinity’ won’t solve

    Illustration of a child with a hood on his head looking at his phone while black crows circle above his head
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    UK economy
    The non-dom brain drain is starting to hit the UK

    At a time of political turmoil elsewhere, Britain should be offering stability

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of an English house standing in a desert with the Dubai skyline in the distance
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    UK Government
    Make public service work again

    Too many of this government’s proposals introduce the kind of regulation the PM professes to hate

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of Keir Starmer with a reflection of the Union Jack flag in his glasses while he holds a scalpel above his head.
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    Populism
    Britain’s new right should beware misplaced triumphalism

    Hope is not built on over-reach or abandoning conservative principles

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of four dogs in suits on chains, barking at each other.
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Social affairs
    The tragedy of Britain’s assisted dying debate

    If the bill does go through, it is so narrowly drawn that few people will qualify

    Illustration of an old man in an armchair, pulling out a thread from his heart that connects to a ball of wool, held out by a pair of hands
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Managing yourself
    Multitasking is not the answer to your feelings of ‘overwhelm’

    Research shows the human brain can’t cope with doing too much at once, so don’t take that meeting while you dog walk

    Illustration of an old fashioned clock face with a woman’s face wearing a mask sticking out one side and four arms sticking out around the clock face, each one holding something different - a mobile phone, paintbrush, toilet roll and key to wind a clock
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    UK defence spending
    Britain must decide if it is to remain a serious player on defence

    Fiscal constraints put Starmer and Reeves in an unenviable situation, but Trump has changed the terms of the debate

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of two wooden soldiers propped up at the back
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    UK economy
    Government must resist the urge to interfere

    The chancellor is right to say that regulation is often an obstacle to growth — it needs to be much smarter

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a man in a suit, wrapped in red tape.
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    UK Government
    Wanted: a clear governing philosophy for Labour

    School and workers’ rights reforms jar with the government’s stated growth mission

    Illustration of Keir Starmer riding on two lamas pulling him in opposite directions
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    National Health Service
    Starmer’s attempt to ‘do a Blair’ on the NHS

    Ministers are trying to go further than before — with less money

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a doctor holding the railings of a hospital bedhead, as though he is imprisoned
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    Religion
    Secularists must remember that religion is on the rise

    Western rationalists have always assumed that atheism is the logical end point of prosperity. But I’m no longer so sure

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a person looking up at the sky as rays stream down from a large sun
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Personal productivity
    Modern life is drowning in a sea of verbiage

    Brevity and clarity have given way to a deluge of text from corporate ‘word salads’ to prolix presentations

    Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America, making his famous ‘Gettysburg Address’
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    UK agriculture
    The politics of land is fundamental to the UK

    Farming row reveals the absence of any strategic thinking about how we use it

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a tractor surrounded by fields and hedgerows with price tags on them
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Transport for London
    London bus crashes are the result of an unsafe model

    Individual tragedies indicate a systemic problem that Whitehall needs to look at fast

    Illustration of a red London bus driving over a traffic warning sign
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    Global migration
    How to live in a polarised age

    Instead of regretting how populists exploit resentments, liberals need to find out what those resentments are

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of polarised American society, with houses wrapped in barbed wire as fists in Republican red or Democrat blue inside speech bubblesas US flags fly
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Labour needs to make good on its pro-business promise

    The government must understand what it means to risk your own capital in a venture or how confidence is generated

    Illustration of a red boxing glove on a spring jumping out of the Budget box and hitting a punch ball ‘head’ on a figure in a business suit
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    National Health Service
    What if the NHS crisis is a classic management problem?

    We should scour the world for executives with the right track record to turn around this complex organisation

    A patient on a hospital trolley is pushed along a hospital corridor by staff in navy scrubs
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Care Dilemma — do society’s problems lie in the devaluing of family life?

    David Goodhart makes an impassioned if unfashionable case to restore meaning to social care and the domestic realm

    A small boy, seen from behind, walks holding a man’s hand. The boy is wearing a Spiderman backpack
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Transport for London
    Survivors of accidents on London bus and Tubes accuse TfL of neglecting safety

    Campaigners highlight what they say is defensiveness and victim-blaming

    A damaged bus in London
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK politics
    In British politics, the centre no longer holds

    Real energy is to be found in single-issue groups and parties to the left and right of Labour and the Tories

    Illustration of a suited figure in the centre of the image holding binoculars and surveying a landscape of hands holding up megaphones. Some are red and some are blue
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK Government
    Downing Street dysfunction is hobbling the government

    Working in Number 10 can feel like being a guerrilla movement trying to cajole, deceive and plead a way through the Whitehall jungle

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Social affairs
    Let’s have a proper conversation about assisted dying

    The UK prime minister has promised a parliamentary vote on the issue — and about time

    Illustration of a person’s face seen mistily in the face of a clock while a pair of hands in the foreground hold the two hands of the clock which have been removed
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    National Health Service
    A radical simplification of the NHS is now upon us

    Devastating Darzi report will strengthen Wes Streeting’s hand as he calls for investment and reform

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of Kier Starmer with surgical gloves on posing as a doctor ready for operation with operating instruments laid in front of him and a syringe in the shape of Big Ben.
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