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.
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Dominic Lawson: Why Windsor's Poundland turns economics on its head
The chain's decision to open its newest store in one of the wealthiest boroughs in the land is much less paradoxical than it seems
Recently by Dominic Lawson
An 'eye for an eye' is proper justice
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Dominic Lawson: The blinding of her tormentor would not have given Bahremi back her eyesight, or her job, but she had a point.
Dominic Lawson: In the Twitter era, privacy is finished
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The Facebook generation are infinitely less sympathetic than the average High Court judge
Vote yes, or no – it will barely make a difference
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Dominic Lawson: Those who say AV will 'end politics as usual' are either fantasising or conning us.
Dominic Lawson: Are you worried about memory loss? Join the club
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
With the whole world of knowledge so readily available at the click of a mouse, we decreasingly need to make the effort to remember
Dominic Lawson: Public figures don't stop being human
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
My sister, Nigella, copes with grotesque coverage by deciding that the person being written about is nothing to do with her
Dominic Lawson: 'Ideological' is Labour's empty insult
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
We can see the assault on Conservative 'ideology' on the part of the post-Blairite Labour leadership as a form of jealousy
Dominic Lawson: It's a pity the majority remain silent
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
If there had been competing marches based on opinion polls, the TUC's 250,000 might have met a crowd of 400,000
The public spending 'massacre' is a lie
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Dominic Lawson: Why should it be 'anti-growth' to divert money from the civil servant to the shopkeeper?
Dominic Lawson: The case for offending the public
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
From Minami Sanriku come reports of row upon row of blue body bags. Yet this is deemed too offensive to show
Dominic Lawson: They haven't got us over a barrel at all
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Why is it always supposed that an uprising against the Saudi monarchy would mean a drop in oil production?
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