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Dominic Lawson

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

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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

It was on his arrival in Zurich to pick up yet another lifetime achievement award that Polanski was arrested, at the request of the US Justice Department, which has sought him ever since 1978 when he fled rather then face prison for a crime to which he had pleaded guilty.

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

English cricket player Stuart Broad fields in front of 'Barmy Army' English cricket fans during the fourth day of the last test match in a five-match series between the West Indies and England at Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on March 9, 2009

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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