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Camilla Cavendish

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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, 14 May, 2022
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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    UK Government
    The damage wreaked by Johnson’s government will far outlast his premiership

    Weakening the institutions which hold politicians to account is reckless

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Labour Party UK
    If Starmer can’t enthuse voters now, he might never beat Johnson

    The prime minister and his party are dogged by scandals and yet Labour still fails to inspire

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
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    It is right to regulate companies that managed to convince us ultra-processed stuff is nutritional

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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    The age taboo in workplaces means we miss out on talent

    Our obsession with youth, tech and flexibility is leading to a loss of institutional memory and experience

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Partygate lays bare the casual carelessness of Johnson’s ancien régime

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who was riding high as a potential leadership successor, has now been tarnished by association

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Boris Johnson
    Boris Johnson will survive partygate but this is not governing

    Amid the hokey-cokey of fudge and doublespeak, no one seems to know what Downing Street really stands for

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    National Health Service
    As Britons lose faith in the NHS, it’s time to demand better care

    For decades the health service has been our national religion, but the Shrewsbury maternity deaths expose shocking failures

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Rishi Sunak
    Where Britons wanted reassurance, Sunak has delivered cynicism

    This government has not thought about the fairest way to share the pain as a cost of living crisis looms

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    The switch to secure, green energy must bring voters in from the cold

    The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the west’s craven dependence on tyrannical regimes to power our economies

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
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    Britain’s youngsters are scarred by post-pandemic anxiety

    We are all keen to put Covid behind us, but the state must first treat those who suffered from its fear tactics

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
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    Britain’s Post Office scandal claimed hundreds of victims, but what of its villains?

    After two decades of whitewash, it is time to hold those responsible to account

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    UK energy
    Taxing energy profits won’t be the windfall politicians hope for

    Proposed levy would only raise the cost of capital for the companies we rely on to transform our future energy supply

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Whitehall must realise that local areas really do know best

    Levelling up is a big potential dividend to be reaped by the whole country

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    Conservative Party UK
    Tories need a better grasp of northern voters to keep control of the ‘red wall’

    Those making lazy assumptions may overestimate Boris Johnson’s winning powers in former Labour heartlands

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    The bully boy tactics and boozing revelations have taken cynicism in politics to new heights

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    The prime minister taints the people and institutions that come into his orbit

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    Working from home
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    Mid-morning yoga comes at the expense of professional interactions and employee productivity

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    The new ‘government by diktat’ bypasses parliament altogether

    Ministers should ask themselves what opponents might do with the new powers they are busily creating

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    The government is discovering that you cannot control a border from one side

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Boris Johnson is all at sea over MPs’ second jobs

    This is a prime minister who not only does not wish to be held accountable, but cannot see why he should be

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