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: We won't improve society by penalising stable relationships

Parents should not be made poorer by choosing to be one household not two

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Mary Dejevsky: Why did the West ignore the truth about the war in Georgia?

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party

Will Europe get the America it wants?

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Mary Dejevsky: On this side of the Atlantic, there is a certain amount of wishful thinking

Mary Dejevsky: If you're good enough, you are old enough

Thursday, 30 October 2008

Among the considerations that Republicans hope will convince American voters to choose John McCain next Tuesday is Barack Obama's lack of experience. Like Hillary Clinton in the primaries, they have been asking whether this 47 year old first-term Senator from Ohio can be trusted to keep his nerve and do the right thing in a crisis. And it is true that Mr Obama, though not the youngest to seek presidential office, has little national or even state-level political experience to his name, and almost no senior executive experience at all.

Mary Dejevsky: The rush to rescue debtors is cruel on savers

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

The bias against savers is not new. Now we are about to be stung again

Mary Dejevsky: Where wealth is less about power than influence

Thursday, 23 October 2008

To the Deripaska I met, possessions were not what really mattered

Mary Dejevsky: Scottish independence: the dream that just melted away

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Alex Salmond was always going to struggle to gather enough 'yes' votes

Mary Dejevsky: Don't blame Thatcher for crunch and crash

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Her view of money was what she'd learned as a grocer's daughter

Mary Dejevsky: It's still TV, not the internet, that really matters in elections

Wednesday, 8 October 2008

In homes and bars, how did people watch the debates?

Mary Dejevsky: Amid the chaos, we should hail the triumph of Europe

Friday, 3 October 2008

The vast majority of European financial institutions are not in difficulty

Mary Dejevsky: Murderess is too harsh a word

Thursday, 25 September 2008

You don't often hear the word "murderess" these days; it has gone the way of "actress" and other gender-specific nouns deemed somehow to demean the individual concerned. Except that in the case of "murderess", the gender specificity seems rather to magnify the vilification, and I wager it will be used, if it hasn't been already, to describe Joanne Hill, the woman just sentenced by Chester Crown Court to 15 years' imprisonment for killing Naomi, her four-year-old child.

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