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: When your bank gets too helpful by half
I was just beginning to feel a little more charitable towards the banks (notwithstanding the matter of bonuses at Barclays, which is in every respect far beyond my pay-grade). And part of the reason was the speed with which they slammed the brakes on their aspirational PR, ditched their fancy product-pushing, and reinvented themselves as nice, responsible, people- friendly operations with your – yes, your – interests at heart. Just look at the sensible-looking lads and lasses fronting their advertising at the moment, with my bank, the NatWest, casting itself as the "helpful bank".
Recently by Mary Dejevsky
The aged will demand better
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Mary Dejevsky: Neither the NHS nor councils want to pay for elderly care.
Mary Dejevsky: Who are you to judge artistic merit?
Friday, 12 February 2010
"So what does Libby Purves know about the theatre" was one of the kinder responses to the news that the Radio 4 presenter and columnist for The Times, was to become that newspaper's chief theatre critic when the current holder of the post retires this spring. Similar condescension, punctuated with indignation, greeted the simultaneous appointment of Kate Muir, another Times writer and novelist, to be the paper's film critic.
Mary Dejevsky: Ukraine is at last throwing off the shackles of the Cold War
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
This election was fought by and for Ukrainians, with no outside meddling
Mary Dejevsky: Experts I have less reason to believe
Friday, 5 February 2010
What was it that so tugged the heartstrings about the news that doctors had successfully communicated with a man thought to be in a vegetative state? For me, it was partly that my husband had taken the best part of three days to regain consciousness after a major brain operation, so I was reminded of the chilling sense of what if ... But it was surely also the glorious simplicity that shone through the complexity of what the neurologists had done.
Mary Dejevsky: A misreading of Iran that risks a fatal replay of Iraq
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
There is no evidence at all that Iran colluded with al-Qa'ida
Mary Dejevsky: Distracted by the Polish question
Friday, 29 January 2010
A strange little debate opened up and then closed, as strange little debates have a habit of doing. It was about whether Polish migrants were going home, and if so, what proportion. A report, commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said that around half of the 1.5 million East Europeans who had come to Britain since 2004 had left, while a Warsaw professor, Krystyna Iglicka, objected that there was no trace of them either back in Poland or elsewhere. Her estimate was that around 1 million Poles were still in the UK.
Mary Dejevsky: It is too soon for Obama to succumb to defeatism
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
More than a year after their rout, Republicans still have no leader
Mary Dejevsky: Going, going, gone: the art of price and value
Friday, 22 January 2010
Around 6.30 last Sunday evening I took a call on my mobile. Within minutes I had passed responsibility for dinner preparations to my visiting sister, forsaken my (as yet unsipped) glass of wine, and set off through the end-of-weekend traffic to an address at the unfashionable end of Chelsea.
Mary Dejevsky: Haiti tests Obama's diplomacy more than it tests US aid
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
The task the US confronts in Haiti is almost the opposite of Katrina
Note to GPs: some jobs just have to be 24/7
Friday, 15 January 2010
Mary Dejevsky: All right, deep down many of us are simply jealous
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