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I write features and investigations for national newspapers and magazines: midlife, money, grief, travel, military families, and the institutions that would rather I didn't. If it has happened to a Gen X woman, it has probably happened to me, and I've probably written about it.

The Telegraph. First-person features on midlife, money, grief and the expensive mistakes I keep making on wheels.

I’ve sold my campervan for Britain’s most hated holiday vehicle

My nightmare new-build proves how much we’ve normalised substandard work

Clare Macnaughton The Military Fight RAF Cancer Scandal

My beloved £96,000 Land Rover was defeated by an airport car park

Clare Macnaughton and her partner in their campervan, from her Telegraph feature on campervan life

We thought a campervan would cure our midlife crisis – it was chaos

Clare Macnaughton's teenage son at a waterfall, from her Telegraph feature on his South-East Asia trip

I sent my teenage son to travel across South-East Asia after his father’s death to help him heal

Family photos from Clare Macnaughton's hacked social media account, from her Telegraph feature

My social media was hacked. Losing the photos of my late husband felt like a gut punch

The Sun, the Mail and more. The personal stories, from widowhood to weight-loss jabs, written for the millions of readers who've lived them too.

My hubby was a war hero & amazing dad but his job killed him at 53 NOT enemy fire

My teen was desperate for an illegal tattoo so I let her get one in Thailand

I found out my dad was a love-rat & lied about my mum’s death

Clare Macnaughton, pictured for her feature on weight-loss jabs

I’m fat jab resistant – I’ve spent £1,250 on Mounjaro but it didn’t work

Clare Macnaughton, with inset photos of her late husband Kai Macnaughton and her new partner

Widow’s fire’ left me craving sex after grief of losing my husband

Clare Macnaughton with a friend, from her feature on how friendships shape our lives

Friends have shaped who we are today – the bonds have changed our lives

THE MILITARY FIGHT

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MILITARY JUSTICE

I'm a writer splitting my time between fighting for military justice and chasing adventures around the world - proving that midlife can be both purposeful and gloriously unpredictable.

As a war widow, I'm taking on the Ministry of Defence in two major compensation cases while exposing systemic failures in how we treat veterans. My late husband, Squadron Leader Kai Macnaughton RAF, served 25 years across 23 operational deployments with UK Special Forces. After his death from angiosarcoma in 2023, Veterans UK tried to prevent me from claiming - blocking post-mortem requests and compensation submissions. I fought back, won my war widow's pension, and now I'm part of landmark legal cases worth millions affecting thousands of veterans. I write about military accountability for national publications including The Sun, and I'm determined to expose the gap between how we honour service and how we treat those who served.