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 issues, has been writing a column for The Independent since 2006.
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Dominic Lawson: So who still thinks Israel is the root of Middle East problems?
02 September 2013 06:13 PM
When regimes in the Middle East feel threatened by their own people, they immediately seek to blame the insurrection on Israel or ‘the Jews’
Help to Buy is a dangerous political placebo...
19 August 2013 05:08 PM
...but rising house prices are among the economic figures making Labour feel sick
Sorry, Chris Bryant - but who was it who wanted these Polish workers in the first place?
12 August 2013 05:19 PM
Tesco’s done more for employment in the UK than any politician ever will
Where do these fracking protesters think energy is going to come from?
05 August 2013 05:59 PM
If oil and gas are there in the South, then let the country benefit
Is Stuart Broad a cheat? I’d rather England's cricket team were ruthless winners than priggish losers
15 July 2013 06:37 PM
The notion of the decent upstanding English public school-educated cricketers is only a myth to console ourselves in defeat against a supposedly inferior national culture
A genius on the court. But let’s keep Andy Murray out of politics
08 July 2013 07:18 PM
Sport has expanded to fill the space that more serious pursuits used to occupy
We'd be wise not to put too much faith in Carney
01 July 2013 06:28 PM
It seems absurd to compare a central banker with a Hollywood movie star. Yet the role of physical allure is underestimated in careers which ought to owe nothing to looks
From the NHS to the police, public servants are putting their own interests first
24 June 2013 09:20 PM
Recent revelations show just how embedded is a culture of self-preservation among those whose first duty should be to you and me
I am Breathing: A dying man who reminds us just what life is for
17 June 2013 05:48 PM
This is not an unremittingly bleak documentary, despite its harrowing subject
Tim Yeo and James Caan: Some forms of hypocrisy are so extreme that we can only laugh
10 June 2013 05:41 PM
The delusions of these two public figures defeat any satire
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Nigel Farage brands LGBT activists 'filth' and 'scum' and accuses them of scaring away his children after they invade his local pub
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Russia threatens Denmark with nuclear weapons if it tries to join Nato defence shield
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Council tenant wins right not to be sent to Milton Keynes
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Jeremy Clarkson suspension: Richard Hammond and James May 'refuse to film Top Gear' without him
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Vote Ukip, says far-right group Britain First
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New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years
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- 3 4D ultrasound study shows harmful effects of smoking on unborn babies
- 4 Unexploded Bermondsey WWII bomb causes chaos in London after being dug up by builders
- 5 Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system
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