Dominic Lawson
Former editor of The Specator magazine and the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Dominic Lawson who is noted for his robust and iconoclastic opinions on political and social issue, has been writing a column for The Independent since 2006.
Dominic Lawson: Here's another phoney war: the one on climate change
There's no glory in spending $10m a year on giant nozzles that squirt sulphur dioxide
Recently by Dominic Lawson
Dominic Lawson: Tracey gets her taxes in a twist
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Few bleats are less attractive to people than threats by the rich to quit the country
Let's not forget what Roman Polanski did
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: A man who drugged and sodomised a 13-year-old girl rarely receives such uncritical support.
Why should you have to pay for Strictly Come dancing?
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: Why is it necessary for the BBC to wage war against ITV, or indeed Sky?
Wonderful? No, Alan Clark was sleazy and cruel
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: Tory minister made his wife wretchedly miserable
Seventy years on, we are still appeasing dictators
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: In dealing with Libya the Foreign Office has been guilty of institutional cringe
If Megrahi deal is justice, then we're all bananas
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: As ever, New Labour is obsessed with politics before government.
PM's silence over Lockerbie is eloquent
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Dominic Lawson: Gordon Brown's response underlines the absurdity of the entire episode
It's not Oxbridge's fault if state pupils don't apply
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Dominic Lawson: Advocates of reverse class discrimination are not interested in education at all
Spare us from Barmy Army
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Dominic Lawson: Boorish and chauvinist - the new breed of England cricket fan
Dominic Lawson: It's no longer 'Yes, Minister' but 'Not Now, Minister'
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Demoralisation of the civil service has evolved rapidly into treachery
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