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.
Death, dignity and darker side of family dynamics
Dominic Lawson: Many of the 114 British 'clients' of Dignitas were not suffering terminal illness at all
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Dominic Lawson: What's wrong with MPs having jobs outside Parliament?
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Mr Brown genuinely believes that a full-time political class is a good thing
Dominic Lawson: A rage to succeed, not talent, is the mark of sporting greatness
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Andy Murray might come across as 'uncultured', but he has a furnace of a mind
Dominic Lawson: Our system of justice is not just rotten – it is lethal
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
How can it be possible for one probation officer to handle 60 "clients" at any one time?
Dominic Lawson: Stop bleating about the need for change and hold an election
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
It is not about better governance. It is all about Labour MPs keeping their jobs
Dominic Lawson: Politics should be more like a gentlemen's club, not less
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
There's a form of subliminal class-based attack that Brown persists in delivering
Dominic Lawson: The Good Lord preserve us from the popular will
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
It captivated Hitler and is the opposite of parliamentary democracy
Dominic Lawson: When liberals advocate torture
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
This depersonalisation of the unborn child is tellingly similar to the view of terrorist suspects taken by those who advocated barbaric interrogation practices
It is not the corruption that galls – it is the sheer pettiness
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Dominic Lawson: These expenses claims are the petty acts of spongeing by inconsequential people.
Dominic Lawson: Sacking social workers will not stem this tide of depravity
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
What no one seems willing to discuss is the real horror of the Baby P case
Dominic Lawson: Higher taxes will drive not just people but businesses abroad
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
I was in the Commons when my father removed the old higher rates, to Labour’s fury
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