Mary Dejevsky
One of the country’s most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US, Mary Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent and regularly appears on radio and television.
Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship
Tony Blair will not be the only, or even the greatest, victim of the Chilcot inquiry
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Why not call Blair now?
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Iraq inquiry already seems like a sideline, says Mary Dejevsky.
Mary Dejevsky: And they wonder why we don't believe them
Friday, 27 November 2009
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I seem to remember a time when you felt you could trust those in positions of authority – academic experts, company directors, even bank managers and politicians – to take questions seriously and to tell the truth. Granted, it might have been the truth as they saw it, but the truth nonetheless, bolstered by the weight of their learning, experience, even wisdom.
Mary Dejevsky: Incentives that work the wrong way
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
London Metropolitan University is a very far cry indeed from Oxbridge
Mary Dejevsky: Cash-machine man in need of withdrawal
Friday, 20 November 2009
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I have arrived at the local cash-machine to find no one there. And by no one, I don't just mean there's no queue, although there isn't. I mean that there is no one lingering, lurking, sitting, lying, sleeping or otherwise occupying the space between the door of the NatWest bank and the door of the Costcutter store where the machine is sited.
Mary Dejevsky: Yes we can! (Slash the budget deficit, that is)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Once you begin to look, the cuts just start rolling in
Mary Dejevsky: Planning law, as seen from my window
Friday, 13 November 2009
From my study window in our seventh-floor flat, I can see: red tiled roofs into the distance, red chimney pots on which pigeons and squawking seagulls compete for space, a grid of urban streets far below and lines of trees now almost shorn of their yellowed leaves. Straight ahead, I can just catch the tip of a garden square, which is sometimes bathed in sunsets of Götterdämmerung intensity, and on the far horizon loom the familiar, but long-cold, towers of Battersea power station.
Mary Dejevsky: Cool realism is a political virtue, too
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
No ideological recipe or vision could have replaced sound judgement in 1989
Mary Dejevsky: You don't need an MP's pay to live in SW1
Friday, 6 November 2009
Of all the arguments advanced by disgruntled MPs against Sir Christopher Kelly's proposed curbs on their expenses, there is one that I find particularly, outrageously, dishonest. It is the one that says they will produce a Parliament of the super-rich. The same ardent defenders of the status quo tend also to have a uniquely disingenuous line about how the new rules will particularly deter women. Really? Even more than the misogynistic colleagues in the Chamber? More than the "Neanderthal" selection boards? More than any other job that requires half of a couple to work away from home? Come off it; any aspiring female MP will be made of sterner stuff.
Mary Dejevsky: Remember the Berlin Wall – and not only how it fell
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
For decades there will be those who live in fear of a knock at the door
Mary Dejevsky: A fiasco that shows British diplomacy is clapped out
Saturday, 31 October 2009
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