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: We betrayed our values with torture

The heroism of the public response has been polluted by what has been done in our name to prevent a second 9/11

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Pistorius is a magnificent... Paralympian

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Dominic Lawson: Able-bodied athletes should have nothing fixed to their lower limbs except shoes.

Can anyone give us a decent game of cricket?

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Dominic Lawson: Effigies of the Indian selectors will soon be burning on the streets of Mumbai.

Blame poverty and gangs, but it's really about cultures

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Dominic Lawson: The inarticulacy of so many of those being dragged through the courts is startling.

Dominic Lawson: If the euro goes under, we should leave the EU

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

The Prime Minister may be away on holiday, but that does not mean his staff are unable to answer letters on his behalf.

Dominic Lawson: Who runs the country? Not Murdoch

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

It's not newspapers nowadays so much as focus groups that political parties use as a proxy for the people as a whole

Dominic Lawson: We got the phone hacking we wanted

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Readers were more interested in eavesdropping on Prince Charles's pillow talk than bothered about the snooping

Dominic Lawson: Scottish pride and English money

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Brutal financial calculation remains an essential solvent in the glue that holds the two nations together

Dominic Lawson: A modest proposal for the benefit of the elderly

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

In Trollope's novel, the president of Brittanula believes that compulsory euthanasia at the age of 67 will solve all his nation's future problems of poverty