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.
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Mary Ann Sieghart: Where have all the europhiles gone?
The arguments for joining the euro have proved bankrupt but virtually none of their proponents has been willing to admit it
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Mary Ann Sieghart: We do need to stop the muck-rakers
Monday, 20 June 2011
The editors will protest about loss of free speech. But reports based on privacy intrusion are lazy journalism
Trouble is, David shares Ed's faults
Monday, 13 June 2011
Mary Ann Sieghart: Things would be only marginally different if David Miliband were in charge of the party.
Mary-Ann Sieghart: You can't be all things to all shoppers
Monday, 6 June 2011
At a time when we are resiling from bling, and conspicuous consumption, they offer sturdy value, unflashy goods
This is a 'war' we should fight no longer
Monday, 30 May 2011
Mary Ann Sieghart: There is a more rational way of dealing with the drugs problem.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Enough of men who crash and burn
Monday, 23 May 2011
As a political journalist I love it when our politics are full of scandal and excitement. But as citizen? Less so
Mary Ann Sieghart: If it ain't broken Nick, don't try to fix it
Monday, 16 May 2011
Messing with the Lords will make Clegg look out of touch, at a time when most voters are worried about losing their job
Mary Ann Sieghart: Long live the king – if he's harmless
Monday, 2 May 2011
If Charles doesn't wind his neck in, the public won't put up with him. The institution is only there by public consent
Mary Ann Sieghart: Vote Yes for evolution, not revolution
Monday, 25 April 2011
The anger and scaremongering is so disproportionate to the reform you wonder if they're all looking at the same voting system
Mary Ann Sieghart: Cameron's betrayal of the middle class
Monday, 18 April 2011
Voters who believe in aspiration and doing the best for their children will be overtly penalised by the Conservatives
Mary Ann Sieghart: China has little to fear from dissent
Monday, 11 April 2011
The Chinese are generally far more content with their lot than the Egyptians. Yet still the state remains paranoid
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Mr Miliband senses a chance to define himself against his opponent.
• Philip Hensher: Fiction takes you to places that life can't
It takes a novelist, not a psychologist, to explain why people act out of character.
• Christina Patterson: Loyalty is noble - and often misplaced
The thing about mistakes is that you have to admit you made them.
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