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Camilla Cavendish

Contributing editor and columnist

A former associate editor and chief leader writer of The Times, she is a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School. She was head of the Downing Street Policy Unit under prime minister David Cameron, and is a winner of the Harold Wincott and Paul Foot awards for journalism.
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  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Parenting and families
    Paranoid parenting in the age of AI

    It’s an illusion to think we can robot-proof our kids’ education choices

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing four stylized figures with geometric shapes for heads, including a blue cube, red cylinder, green question mark, and yellow pyramid, on an abstract background. They all fit into their respective holes except the question mark
  • Saturday, 25 April, 2026
    Keir Starmer
    Power is draining away from Starmer’s Downing Street

    Loyalty has worn thin because of the PM’s lack of interest in making the difficult decisions his job requires

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing Keir Starmer peeking from behind a chained, partially open Number 10 Downing Street door against a red background.
  • Saturday, 18 April, 2026
    UK defence
    Defence dithering is harming the UK

    As the transatlantic alliance falters, Starmer needs to step up

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing model kit parts in blue, including a warship, bombs with the UK flag, pound symbols and RAF roundels
  • Friday, 3 April, 2026
    Misinformation
    It’s far too easy to get sucked down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole

    We all tend to accept information that is consistent with our prior beliefs, and reject the opposite

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing three people interacting with trash cans: one person walks with a bin over their body, another leans into a bin, and a third peeks from a bin labeled ‘Trust No One’. Black arrows connect the figures.
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    UK energy
    Time to tackle the rank absurdities in UK energy policy

    The debate over North Sea oil and gas resembles a bar brawl between opponents who can’t see straight

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing symbols of energy sources, including the Sun, oil tap, wind turbine, atomic symbol and industrial machinery
  • Saturday, 21 March, 2026
    Cyber Security
    Britain must be more vigilant to the risk of sabotage by hostile states

    If Moscow and Beijing are determined to destabilise the west then new strategies are needed

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing power pylons with wires depicted as chains and circuit lines, half with padlocks and half with keys, merging elements of infrastructure and cybersecurity.
  • Saturday, 14 March, 2026
    Intellectual property
    AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights

    The problem is not that the law is unfit for the 21st century but that it is being flouted

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration combining digital circuit patterns, a fragmented Rubik’s cube, and a man in a suit amid scattered text and the phrase “DON’T STEAL THIS.”
  • Saturday, 7 March, 2026
    UK economy
    Britain is now the home of the Middle Man

    Rules don’t even have to be effective to provide gainful employment for advisers

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a suited figure with a red circle over their face, surrounded by black pipes with pointing hands emerging from them.
  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    UK politics
    Britain’s old political duopoly has been shattered

    The country used to be contemptuous of parties on either extreme, but no longer

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a ballot box being kicked open by a green and a blue boot, with a paper showing a red rose inside
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    UK politics
    Starmer’s government hasn’t practised what it preached

    The prime minister was elected on a promise to clean up Westminster — he has failed to deliver

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a blank outlined profile of Starmer’s face, with the words "NOTHING TO SEE HERE” written across his head.
  • Saturday, 31 January, 2026
    UK politics
    The Tories have forgotten what it takes to prosper

    No one wants to look like the status quo, but the current crop of Conservatives are stuck

    Camilla Cavendish
    Illustration of the Houses of Parliament on top of a dark cloud in the sky with a ladder bathed in blue light reaching down from it to the ground
  • Friday, 9 January, 2026
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer should not be afraid to pick a fight to get things done

    Public sector reform should be easiest for Labour to do, precisely because it is Labour

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a hand in a pinstripe suit turning a crank attached to Big Ben, with legs in business attire emerging from the tower and the roof flying off. Red, white, and blue ribbons extend from the clock, overlapping a partial Union Jack flag.
  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    Working It
    How to get ahead at work in 2026

    Future of work experts outline the trends we need to know now

    Woman with her hand raised site next to a man in the background and in the foreground someone is holding up a smartphone
  • Friday, 2 January, 2026
    UK politics
    A year that will dictate Starmer’s fate as prime minister

    This government behaves as if it is being run as a riposte to Nigel Farage rather than because it believes in anything

    Camilla Cavendish
    Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 26 December, 2025
    Health
    Why humans should be more like hedgehogs

    People used to seek sun, fresh air and respite — but we have forgotten the lost art of convalescence at our peril

    Camilla Cavendish
    A European hedgehog stands in green grass next to a yellow dandelion flower, with more dandelions blurred in the background.
  • Friday, 19 December, 2025
    UK schools
    It’s beginning to look a lot like holiday job season

    We need young people to gain experience that makes the world of work intelligible and builds skills and confidence

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a young girl in a school uniform standing on stacks of papers, looking up at a tall ladder with lots of broken rungs
  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    Social affairs
    Drop the gloom if you want to change public behaviour

    We are deeply influenced by what others do, so emphasising kindness is the way to tackle littering, pilfering and abuse

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a yellow smiley-face balloon floating near a bus stop sign under dark clouds with blue raindrops.
  • Friday, 28 November, 2025
    UK Autumn Budget 2025
    Labour has trapped the British economy in a web of ‘doublespeak’

    Reeves’ Budget shows she’s serious about spending other people’s money — but not about growth or jobs

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a wind-up chattering teeth toy made from a red book, biting into British pound notes with bite marks
  • Saturday, 22 November, 2025
    UK politics
    Ignoring Britain’s disquiet on crime will not go unpunished

    The next election may be fought as much on how safe people feel as on the economy

    Camilla Cavendish
    Illustration of men and women in 1920s clothing looking at each other with suspicion
  • Friday, 14 November, 2025
    Labour Party UK
    The government’s latest reversal shows that Labour has no plan

    The long roar of speculation about the Budget has already damaged market confidence

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer peeking nervously from a hole above a document labeled "HM Treasury Plan A," with "A" crossed out and replaced by "B," then crossed out again.
  • Friday, 7 November, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    It’s time to stop passing the parcel on welfare

    A lack of political will has turned the problem of too many out of work into a system that fails everyone

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a cube labelled "Welfare Reform" surrounded by layered red, blue, and beige torn paper textures.
  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    Unions
    Labour’s trade union backers are out of control

    Demands for money and perks have grown along with payouts even as ministers boost their power

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a closed metal gate in front of a London Underground sign, with a ‘CLOSED’ sign hanging on the gate
  • Saturday, 6 September, 2025
    UK politics
    The rise and rise of Reform

    The Conservatives long sought to avoid a split on the right by trying to contain Farage. All to no avail

    Camilla Cavendish
    An illustration showing a headless figure in a suit with a megaphone and arrow emerging from the neck, symbolizing outspoken or forceful communication.
  • Friday, 22 August, 2025
    Parenting and families
    Corporate egg freezing won’t break the glass ceiling

    At its most cynical, the perk feels like yet another way of trying to control women’s bodies

    Camilla Cavendish
  • Saturday, 16 August, 2025
    Parenting and families
    Grandparents are the reserve army of society

    Those undertaking the formidable work of second parenthood often go unrecognised

    Camilla Cavendish
    Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe
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