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: There is an immigration problem – but Cameron won't dare tackle it
Friday, 15 April 2011
Little by little the Goverment has succumbed to pressure from particular lobbies, such as businesses wanting skills they are relucant to pay for
Mary Dejevsky: And they still want to get us into debt
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
When I peruse what is left on shop clothes' rails at sale time I can't help feeling a bit proud of myself and my fellow-countrywomen. Even in slovenly Britain, there are some items that are just too ugly and some colours just too dire to find a buyer at any price.
Mary Dejevsky: Genetic testing has little value if there's no chance of a cure
Friday, 8 April 2011
If you submit to screening at, say, the age of 40, and learn that you have a predisposition to Alzheimer's, what are you supposed to do about it?
Mary Dejevsky: The feminisation of foreign policy
Saturday, 2 April 2011
The Clinton-Rice-Power trio underwrote the use of armed force against armed force for the higher purpose of protecting civilians.
Mary Dejevsky: Is public anger finally going to erupt?
Friday, 25 March 2011
Until recently the Government was enjoying a conspicuously easy ride. But people's mood is changing
Mary Dejevsky: The West still labours under the shadow of Iraq
Friday, 18 March 2011
Political constraints are now placed on Western action anywhere - especially in an Arab country, even when the cause might seem unimpeachably just
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The America at which we glance across the ocean today is shrinking before our eyes. It is bamboozled and petrified
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I am as partial to a pizza as anyone, and the chain restaurant around the corner does a passable job
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