Camilla Cavendish

Friday, 2 June, 2023

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

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

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