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About: "Associate Editor and columnist at The Times. She was campaigning journalist of the year 2009, and won the Paul Foot award, for exposing miscarriages of justice which convinced Government to open the family courts. A mother of three, she has been a McKinsey consultant, aid worker, and CEO of the trust which rebuilt London’s south bank" -The Times
Education: Oxford University: Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Harvard: Kennedy School of Government Public Administration Program (Scholarship), MA
Career: Has worked as a McKinsey management consultant; aid worker; CEO of a not-for-profit company
Current position/role: Associate editor, columnist, leader writer
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- The State must roll up its sleeves on growth - As global rivals cultivate business, Britain not only fails to champion its winners but regulates them to death - 6th October 2011
- More little greenies would rescue nursing - We know what’s wrong on the wards, so let’s fix it. Start by bringing back non-graduate state enrolled nurses - 29th September 2011
- Nurse training has eroded the caring ethos - Even the RCN admits something’s wrong. The hands-on care that patients value is done by untrained assistants - 22nd September 2011
- Let’s all admit it: being a good parent is hard - We must take heed of Unicef’s criticisms about our children. Parenting classes are not just for others - 15th September 2011
- It’s no longer cuckoo to take the Swiss road - Britain and the EU are no longer going in the same direction. We should grab the chance for an amicable divorce - 8th September 2011
- Get problem kids into jobs, not youth clubs - The money’s run out and unemployment is climbing. Scrapping needless regulation is the only thing we can do - 18th August 2011
- We must toughen up if we want tough policing - The mood is swinging towards zero tolerance. Add elected commissioners and we’d be getting somewhere - 11th August 2011
- Building in shires could demolish the Tory vote - Relaxing planning rules to promote growth will cause an uproar that could dwarf the row over selling off forests - 4th August 2011
- Tomorrow looks like Black Friday for Europe - Unless today’s EU meeting acts to avert the potential debt disaster, we face another Lehman Brothers moment - 21st July 2011
- Will this judge really be on the people’s side? - If regulation of the press is too tight it will benefit the corrupt and the overpowerful – not ordinary citizens - 14th July 2011
- We can already pay for care. With our houses - The babyboom generation is the wealthiest yet. So why should someone else pick up the tab for their families? - 7th July 2011
- The runaway train link is on the wrong track - High Speed Two has a momentum all of its own. But do the arguments driving it forward really stack up? - 30th June 2011
- We must not let vested interests stall reform - Big business is increasingly ready to challenge the status quo. It must be confronted in schools and hospitals too - 23rd June 2011
- The NHS can’t manage itself. Who’ll show us how? - We must do a lot more to secure the future of healthcare - 16th June 2011
- Public ignorance on the NHS is costing lives - If the voters keep on opposing change and supporting failure they will deserve the failing healthcare they get - 9th June 2011
- Learn to read: that’s a sentence prisoners need - Many young criminals reoffend because they are illiterate and can find no place in the adult world outside - 26th May 2011
- Scrutiny can keep the macho man in check - The Strauss-Kahn case is a timely reminder that sometimes we have a right to know the secrets of the powerful - 19th May 2011
- We will no longer buy Pakistan’s victim complex - The West cannot go on supporting a nation that takes its money while harbouring and aiding its enemies - 5th May 2011
- Wishful thinking won’t stem the human flow - Whether for jobs or benefits, people will cross Europe’s open borders. The Arab Spring only adds to the numbers - 28th April 2011
- University reforms are sinking by degrees - Ministers fear that student numbers will collapse at the worst moment, provoking mutinies on the coalition benches - 21st April 2011
- Science relieves me of my Mother’s Day guilt - Do children suffer without the undivided attention of a single carer? No, we’re more like marmosets than apes - 31st March 2011
- We’ve got to stop giving thrift short shrift - Mr and Mrs Reliable worked and saved, only to become victims of the finance industry and runaway inflation - 24th March 2011
- Universities are hurtling towards a car crash - Tuition fees were supposed to set higher education free, but now it is being suffocated in a Soviet-like grip - 17th March 2011
- Driving bankers abroad is financial suicide - Those who earn big money and big bonuses pay most in tax and bring jobs in other professions with them - 10th March 2011
- With oil at $120, green makes real sense - Countries with small cars and nuclear or renewable power have the best hedge against oil dictators - 3rd March 2011
- Charity shouldn’t begin in the public purse - Nearly half the budget for voluntary organisations comes from the State. We need fewer, better charities - 10th February 2011
- A booming world is a reason to be cheerful - Despite bleak GDP figures and Pfizer job losses, global growth gives Britain its best chance of balancing the books - 3rd February 2011
- Untie their hands – the little guys can save us - Small businesses can generate the growth we need so desperately. But only if they are freed from crazy red tape - 27th January 2011
- Let’s abolish the idea that easy is good enough - Just 16 per cent of children pass the ‘English bac’. We do them no favours by pretending all GCSEs are equal - 20th January 2011
- China needs us as much as we need it. For now - Western business is being dangerously naive as Beijing tries to bully, buy and spy its way to world dominance - 13th January 2011
- Gossip-mongering is no basis for justice - How can anyone be proved innocent when they are already damned as guilty in blogs or on Twitter? - 6th January 2011
- Two parents. Marriage. Why is that taboo? - Fifty years of orthodoxy is at stake, but Frank Field is right to suggest that child neglect begins at home - 16th December 2010
- China wins a skirmish, but may lose the war - Although the Nobel boycott looks appalling to Western eyes, it is a sign of deep insecurity inside Beijing - 9th December 2010
- Memo to Cancún: privatise the rainforests - We must make trees more valuable alive than chopped down. That means we must pay to protect them - 2nd December 2010
- There can be no growth if everyone’s broke - Europe’s recovery depends on exports. But unless we find new trading partners a lost decade beckons - 25th November 2010
- Broken adoption system. Grown-ups needed - With 12.000 children looking for homes, we may have to turn to America to break our cycle of misery - 18th November 2010
- We can’t just trust experts on the risk to a child - Unless courts drop the concept of ‘emotional abuse’ more mothers will be tempted to flee with their children - 11th November 2010
- We can’t have excellence and social engineering - To get more working-class students into university, we need better schools, not more state interference - 4th November 2010
- This is our chance to put Europe in its place - The Greek debt crisis has given David Cameron an opportunity to win back money and power from Brussels - 28th October 2010
- The cuts were easy. Growth is the big problem - Osborne has achieved Stage 1. But unless he tackles tax rates and onerous employment law, there will be no new jobs - 21st October 2010
- My US college experience shows fees work - If students pay they can expect more of their universities. But we mustn’t let prices spiral to Ivy League extremes - 13th October 2010
- Like the coalition we must all work together - The age of bribes is over. Cameron has boldly made clear that he aims to reinvent the whole business of government - 7th October 2010
- If we cut legal aid, do families not bleed? - As a poignant case in Coventry illustrates, slashing legal help for vulnerable people could prove disastrous - 30th September 2010
- The Big Society is about bowling together - It’s not so complicated after all: making connections with other people breathes life into communities - 23rd September 2010
- You don’t make a doctor punch the clock - Illnesses don’t follow ‘structured pathways’, so why should physicians? These rigid rules are killing our NHS - 17th September 2010
- We don’t need new laws to call Crow’s bluff - Anti-strike legislation could split the coalition. But there are other ways to prevent a spring of discontent - 9th September 2010
- Hey, teacher, leave these academies alone - New schools offer a way to break the cycle of underachievement. We mustn’t let vested interests undermine them - 2nd September 2010
- Long hours are women’s enemy, not low pay - The men-only model of achievement is alive and well in ‘extreme jobs’ that leave no time for life outside work - 20th August 2010
- Just say sorry. I promise I won’t sue you - Management-speak means never having to say you’re sorry. An Apology Act would enable us to be human again - 23rd July 2010
- Create jobs – make it easier to sack people - Redundancy is painful. But firms have no incentive to hire if it’s almost impossible to fire - 16th July 2010
- How high passes are hiding low expectations - Overqualified and underachieving, a generation of children is being conned - 9th July 2010
- Steel and glass has a place. But not everywhere - Prince Charles was right about the plans for Chelsea Barracks. At least he is not overawed by a big-name architect - 2nd July 2010
- After Shannon, what about the other 304,000? - It’s impossible to expect social workers alone to keep bad parents on the straight and narrow - 18th June 2010
- Useless, jobless men – the social blight of our age - The benefits system has produced an emasculated generation who can find neither work nor a wife - 28th May 2010
- A five-year plan that might really work - Its project may be Soviet in scale, but give the coalition credit: it has bold ambitions to shift power to the people - 21st May 2010
- We must be fair to everyone – even the rich - Prosperity masked deep social divisions. As the cuts bite, the fractures will widen unless the pain is shared - 14th May 2010
- Call in the IMF to tell us how bad it really is - The next government needs the backing of the big boys to drive through cuts. It’s much worse than we think - 6th May 2010
- I want The West Wing, not The Office - Our Parliament is stifled by inexperience and patronage. Let’s have an American-style system - 3rd May 2010
- We get a raw deal – but the MPs don’t get it - When voters say they want change, they mean an end to a system which favours cheats – in banks or on benefits - 21st April 2010
- Voting Lib Dem would be a vote for chaos - As tempting as it would be to punish the two main parties, a hung Parliament would be disastrous for Britain - 16th April 2010
- Why is it ‘brave’ to want children and a career? - Our working lives will last 40 years. But taking just a few years out for a baby can ruin a lifetime’s prospects - 9th April 2010
- Ethiopia: an aid success story or a tyranny? - Our money is eradicating poverty. But it may also be used to prop up a repressive regime - 24th March 2010
- In the real world, the public sector must pay - Private sector workers are tired of footing the bill for bloated, inefficient services and the fat cats who run them - 9th July 2009
- Straw sticks to family court reforms promise - The Justice Secretary faces a big task but letting the media report the substance of proceedings is an important shift - 9th July 2009
- It's the Government who won't learn - The new schools White Paper obfuscates the need to impart basic knowledge by jargon and guff - 3rd July 2009
- Three warring kings won't work - The Bank, the Treasury and the FSA must stop arguing and help businesses to borrow - 26th June 2009
- Spending cuts without being cruel - Encouraging people to help each other break the cycle of dependency on the welfare state - 19th June 2009
- It's mad to deny cuts are coming - Everyone knows the money has run out. We need politicians to spend less and to spend more wisely - 12th June 2009
- Public spending is up — or down, depending who you listen to - A confusing war of figures has broken out, but no party can pretend that the hole in public finances can be filled easily - 11th June 2009
- Brown's battle: the view from the blue corner - Labour in crisis is good news for the Tories, but does the prospect of a new leader actually upset their best-laid plans? - 5th June 2009
- Our powerless Members of Parliament - The public are not only outraged by expenses but by the readiness of politicians to relinquish power - 22nd May 2009
- A renewable force meets an irreplaceable object - A green oil company can halve diesel emissions. But obtaining its wonder ingredient involves destroying vital rainforest - 15th May 2009
- Ofsted report shines light on Cinderella children - Report takes a rare look at the children – mostly boys – whom schools find disruptive, but who are too often left in limbo - 13th May 2009 (see: Schools failing to provide education for excluded pupils, Ofsted says)
- Natural families are safer for children - We still turn a blind eye to the danger posed to children by step-parents - 8th May 2009
- Abuse guidelines patronising and dangerous - BMA move, prompted by the Baby P case, may encourage over-reporting of everything from frequent crying to harmless bruises - 7th May 2009
- We are all suspects in the new inquisition's eyes - A safety quango will vet one in four adults in the name of child protection. It won't stop predators, but it will corrode trust - 1st May 2009
- GB Enterprises still heads for the rocks - Instead of a serious plan for recovery, the childish Chancellor served up fantasy forecasts - 24th April 2009
- A tough choice - cut pay or cut jobs - Public spending must be pruned hard. But that need not mean getting rid of teachers, nurses and police - 8th April 2009
- Those G20 protesters do have a point - Behind anti-capitalist ranting lie genuine concerns about globalisation that world leaders are ignoring - 3rd April 2009
- Witch-hunt is a dangerous distraction - Politicians have done a shockingly bad job of explaining why we must bail out banks - 27th March 2009
- Spendaholics mortgaging our future - Throwing money at inefficient services can create as many problems as it solves - 20th March 2009
- UK education gets A* for defeatism - British schools are failing. But when a useful idea emerges it gets shot down in flames - 13th March 2009
- Wronged parents need publicity - We hear the details of children left in danger. But what of the families of those removed unjustly - 6th March 2009
- Britain in a tortured position - We allow extraordinary rendition because we can't reconcile human rights with the threat of terrorism - 27th February 2009
- A dangerous diet of pizzas and porkies - If the recession turns really sour we may rediscover how to eat well. But not if we delude ourselves that cheap is good - 20th February 2009
- No heroes in the tale of Sir James and the Dragon - Paul Moore has exposed the greed in the banking system. He was right about risk, but his timing was all wrong - 13th February 2009
- Obama's way ahead in race to be green - The President's bold speech on renewable energy has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the world - 6th February 2009
- Lift barriers blocking the rescue party - Our ingenuity has saved us before, but there are too many burdens on the back of entrepreneurs - 30th January 2009
- Brown's rescue ship heads for the rocks - What should be a well-constructed bailout is being undermined by confusion and short-termism - 23rd January 2009
- Heathrow lobby faces terminal decline - Approval of the third runway looks like a victory. But it could be the last time the air industry gets its way - 16th January 2009
- Blind faith in experts fails justice - Professionals giving evidence in court are supposed to be independent not hired guns - 9th January 2009
- Family courts: what changed on the long walk to freedom - Jack Straw's long-awaited decision to open up proceedings is a welcome one, fuelled by an ever-increasing lobby of which The Times has been at the forefront - 16th December 2008 (see: Innocent but presumed guilty - the first article - Back in January 2006, we asked how many homes were being broken by closed and secretive family courts)
- We must turn up the green heat of technology - Britain needs to raise its game. Producing green-collar jobs means serious innovation in finance and manufacturing - 12th December 2008
- Forget the IOC. London needs a new Games - The 2012 Olympics won't help community sport or tourism. But with fresh thinking it can regenerate a huge area of London - 5th December 2008
- Shock therapy won't cure the banks - Threats and punishment are no way to get lending going and restore life to the financial system - 28th November 2008
- Children Haringey did take into care - Did financial pressure mean Baby P was left in his home when others in less danger were removed? - 21st November 2008
- Baby P's cries must not cause despair - For all the feckless behaviour and incompetence witnessed, enlightened new approaches do exist - 14th November 2008
- The lessons that need to be learnt from Baby P - Camilla Cavendish, who won an award for her campaign for more open family courts, gives her reaction to the tragedy - 13th November 2008
- Time is ripe to change the climate of fear - We can create green-collar jobs, cut fuel bills and boost small businesses if we reject science fiction and accept real science - 7th November 2008
- Battered at home and then by the State - Women who manage to escape domestic violence then find themselves under suspicion - 31st October 2008
- Paranoid? They really are watching us - The State's growing mania for gathering information is turning us into a nation of suspects and informers - 24th October 2008
- Forget homes. Help small businesses - It will be outrageous if banks force companies off the edge through their lending policies - 17th October 2008
- Gordon Brown: conquering hero must not forget the home front - At home, there remain many unanswered questions about the details of the Government’s rescue package for British banks - 16th October 2008
- The guilty men who sent mum to Iceland - Toothless watchdogs have brought us to the brink. Bring back the stickler, not the nit-picker - 10th October 2008
- Congress: an advert for dictatorship - We needed leadership. We got shenanigans. Thank goodness Europe is finding its own way - 1st October 2008
- We can no longer fund the corrupt - The UN rails against the banks, but the aid industry has been just as reckless in its lending and spending - 26th September 2008
- The roulette wheel is spinning too fast - Consolidation and correction are long overdue, but the speed of events is threatening the economy - 19th September 2008
- Patients' rights must not trump public safety - Most mentally ill patients do not commit violent crime. But psychiatrists must be honest about the risks of those who do - 10th September 2008
- Britain 2028: we need ten new cities - Our immigration policy is unsustainable. We must cap numbers or start a tough guest worker scheme - 4th September 2008
- Those things other people look after - How has it become normal, in one generation, to farm out children to poorly paid helpers? - 28th August 2008
- Optimism alone won't get Labour out of this pit - David Miliband has summoned up the courage to make his challenge. Now he must set out what he stands for - 31st July 2008
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