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: Obama isn't anti-British. Or anti-oil
These appearances are a form of ritual slaughter, as much as about establishing the facts, and BP's chairman has been allocated the role of sacrificial offering to the gods
Recently by Dominic Lawson
Cameron can't blame it all on Labour
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Dominic Lawson: How very useful Margaret Thatcher is to the new coalition Government. They will have to cut public expenditure, oh yes, but it will not be done in the nasty way she did it. These will be caring cuts.
Dominic Lawson: Cameron can't have it both ways
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Manufacturing has been steadily declining relative to other sectors, but that is a function of the great success of our service and financial sectors over a sustained period
Dominic Lawson: Spare me lectures from deluded actors
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Jeremy Irons is a very suitable standard-bearer for eternal misanthropes: his particular talent on film is to exude moroseness from every pore
Dominic Lawson: Not such a big spill after all
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Ruthless business competitors as they undoubtedly are, big oil companies have as much concern for humankind as their environmentalist critics
Dominic Lawson: Not such unnatural bedfellows
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
The idea that the Lib Dems can't work with the Tories can only have been based on a misunderstanding that they are still led by Charlie Kennedy
Dominic Lawson: The curse of the 24-hour news agenda
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
As one battle-weary civil servant said to me: 'If you want to send a message, write a letter; laws are too important to be used as a form of advertising'
Dominic Lawson: The curse of the Bullingdon Club
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
There are a number of ways in which Cameron seeks to distance himself from the interests of the middle class which is so much part of the identity of the party he leads
The Pope is vilified, Polanski indulged
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Dominic Lawson: I had always imagined that it was people who raped children, not organisations.
The public want honesty, but not when it comes to their taxes
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Dominic Lawson: It is a myth that Churchill's 'blood, toil and tears' speech was welcome to the British.
Lord Mandelson makes the case for Divine Right
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Dominic Lawson: New Labour has amply demonstrated its unfitness for office over a dozen years.
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