Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart has been writing about politics since the mid-1980s. After stints at the FT and Today newspaper, she joined The Economist in 1986 as Political Correspondent. In 1988, she moved to become Assistant Editor of The Times, where she spent 19 years, editing the Comment and Arts pages and writing political leaders and columns. She has presented TV programmes such as The Brains Trust and The World This Week and radio programmes such as Profile, The Week in Westminster and Newshour. As well as her Independent column, she also sits on the Council of Tate Modern, is an equity partner in The Browser website and chairs the Social Market Foundation think tank.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Start the world – I want to get on
Brain not quite engaged. Eyes a bit dim. Energy levels still low. I think I now know how a hedgehog feels in the spring after emerging from a winter's hibernation. In fact, I wouldn't mind crawling back under the pile of leaves and sleeping through till March.
Inside Mary Ann Sieghart
Let's resolve to embrace our flaws
Monday, 3 January 2011
Mary Ann Sieghart: If you feel good about yourself, you start to look good – even if you are 80.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Intoxicated by a spirit of anarchy
Monday, 20 December 2010
Much better simply to boycott Topshop or Vodafone if you feel strongly, rather than to take direct physical action
Mary Ann Sieghart: Liberal Democrats- a party that is growing up in public
Monday, 13 December 2010
Mary Ann Sieghart: The students have stomped out but many grown-ups may decide to vote Liberal Democrat.
Mary Ann Sieghart: O father, where art thou?
Monday, 6 December 2010
How often have you asked a prospective father, 'So what are you going to do after the baby is born?'
Mary Ann Sieghart: Too much democracy can be a bad thing
Monday, 29 November 2010
The wisdom of crowds is at its best when it comes to judgements of character, not the minutiae of policy
Mary Ann Sieghart: How we avoided Ireland's nightmare
Monday, 22 November 2010
If you think our situation is bad, thank Blair's hesitancy and Brown's obduracy for things not being a whole lot worse
Mary Ann Sieghart: MPs are getting ready for the fight of their lives
Monday, 15 November 2010
At last they will be more in touch with the voters they represent. The rest of us have been forced to work harder to keep our jobs; now they will too
Mary Ann Sieghart: Obama's strength is now his weakness
Monday, 8 November 2010
The charisma he once displayed so powerfully has dried up. Voters now complain of the President's coolness
We must restore sanity in the debate on drugs
Monday, 1 November 2010
Mary Ann Sieghart: Every year, 750,000 Americans are arrested for possession of cannabis.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Not every pensioner needs a bus pass
Monday, 25 October 2010
Pensioners are no more likely to be poor than younger people. If you look at their income after housing costs, 48 per cent are in the top half of income distribution
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