Camilla Cavendish

Friday, 23 May, 2025

Friday, 16 May, 2025

UK housebuilding

How to fix the UK’s housing crisis

For young adults, property shortages reinforce the feeling that life is a zero-sum game

Friday, 2 May, 2025

UK politics

Reform’s rise shows Labour must get serious about immigration

With a more volatile electorate, all parties need to adapt to face down populism

Saturday, 26 April, 2025

Coronavirus

The post-Covid world is only just becoming clear

The scars of the pandemic are emerging in our politics

Saturday, 19 April, 2025

UK society

It would be so much easier if we said what we thought

Non-Brits can find it hard to interpret the ‘polite-isms’ that conceal annoyance

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, 22 February, 2025

Populism

Britain’s new right should beware misplaced triumphalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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