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. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and the author of the introductory essay to
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Mary Dejevsky: These welfare reforms won't end our costly sick-note culture
It is highly doubtful that even after these changes, benefits in Britain will fall to the point where low-paid jobs become attractive without some form of top-up
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Mary Dejevsky: We can't stop getting Russia wrong
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Russians enjoy more freedom than is often condescendingly understood. Try the blogosphere if you don't believe it
Mary Dejevsky: The cult of charismatic leadership has gone too far
Friday, 11 February 2011
To lionise individuals is asking for trouble. It encourages schools to become even bigger, along with their heads' already more than adequate egos
Mary Dejevsky: If you want the benefits of marriage, take the plunge
Friday, 4 February 2011
If two people decide not to register their relationship, or if they just don't get round to it, what duty should the law have to them?
Mary Dejevsky: Signs of a quiet accord designed to limit fallout
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Egypt's allies face a diabolical set of choices. How to respond when confronted with mass calls for democracy from the streets, a long-time friend under threat, and the risk of anarchy that, once unleashed, could spread across the whole region?
Mary Dejevsky: Is Obama Egypt's great enabler?
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
The US President's words have gone with the grain of Middle East societies in a way that the sermons of Bush and Blair did not
Mary Dejevsky: It's time we stopped seeing national borders as sacrosanct
Friday, 28 January 2011
Countries and territories change, for one reason or another. Why should their boundaries not be subject to fluctuation, too?
Mary Dejevsky: Everyone is working 24/7 – except those who should be
Friday, 21 January 2011
There are jobs where working weekends, bank holidays and 'unsocial' hours should be made basic requirements for all, and built into pay structures
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