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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, 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
  • 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

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a mechanical man working at a computer, with a red hand turning him on an off using a switch on the back of his chair
  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    UK politics
    By meddling with justice, UK politicians are undermining it

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

    Illustration of blindfolded Lady Justice, with Big Ben as her body, tilting over. In one hand she holds broken scales and behind her back she holds a large sledgehammer with the UK Parliament’s portcullis emblem engraved on it.
  • 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

    Jonathan McHugh illustration showing a mechanical figure riding an antiquated vehicle
  • 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

    illustration of an elephant draped in India’s flag overtaking a panda draped in China’s flag
  • 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

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a man about to cross the road and a woman behind him holding an umbrella in one hand, hot beverage in the other as they pass an advert depicting a bloodthirsty dog, barking the word ‘vote’ coloured red and in large writing
  • 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

    Illustration of a man standing in front of the self-help section in a library, but looking behind his shoulder at the Bible, which is illuminated by rays of sunlight from the window
  • 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

    Illustration of a surgeon wearing scrubs using a pair of tongs to pull a medical file, marked confidential, from a filing cabinet drawer
  • 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

    Jonathan McHugh illustration four police officers, with one in a spotlight
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    UK politics
    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

    Illustration of a red speech bubble from Keir Starmer’s head overlapping with a blue speech bubble coming from Rishi Sunak, with a question mark between the bubbles
  • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
    Neurotechnology
    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

    A headset that tracks brainwaves allowed viewers to control an interactive installation at Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights festival in January. The debate about how to regulate neurotechnology is in its infancy
  • 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

    Illustration of a farmer ploughing his land with a tractor and slicing the word ‘conservatives’ in the process. The land turns yellow, then red then green into the distance
  • 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

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a stone pillar with the Scottish flag hanging over it. One red tartan stiletto is on top of the pillar, the other one falling off
  • 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

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  • 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

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