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: You don't need an MP's pay to live in SW1

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.

Recently by Mary Dejevsky

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

Comment

Mary Dejevsky: Why is useful information still so elusive?

Friday, 30 October 2009

In the tech world they are called "early adopters", and I am definitely not one of them – save in three respects. As a foreign correspondent through the late 1980s and 1990s, I and my tribe were at the leading edge of telecoms, as we advanced from tape-punching telexes to laptops with modems, then to wireless. Back then, you had to make the stuff work, even if it meant taking a screwdriver to the hotel phone socket. If you couldn't transmit your story, you might as well not have been there at all.

Mary Dejevsky: Britain, Europe and a history of lamentable mis-timing

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

David Cameron is swimming against the tide of history

Mary Dejevsky: Keep your hands off my health records

Friday, 23 October 2009

To judge by the personal information individuals cheerfully make public about themselves on Facebook and the rest, perhaps all information will eventually be deemed public unless expressly designated private. For the time being, though, the hawking of personal, especially medical, information still has the capacity to shock, and a report on ITV's Tonight programme this week will only have stoked people's worst fears.

Mary Dejevsky: Could Europe's new order be the old one in disguise?

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Turkey is looking increasingly outward, but not in our direction

Mary Dejevsky: Into the frozen heart of Asia's cold war

Monday, 19 October 2009

Seoul Notebook

Mary Dejevsky: The postman doesn't ring even once

Friday, 16 October 2009

There was a time when it was simple, or it seemed so. There was the Post Office (with real, working Post Offices across the land) and there was the Royal Mail which had its coat of arms on the pillar boxes. And they seemed for all practical purposes to be part of the same thing.