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.
Can we please stand up for Michael McIntyre?
Dominic Lawson: Comedy shows based on shocking us carry the seeds of their own destruction
Recently by Dominic Lawson
The options are to double up in Afghanistan or leave
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Dominic Lawson: At a risk of sounding callous, the number of casualties is actually small for a war.
Dominic Lawson: Labour's thirst for power led to this confusion over drugs
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
How many MPs would have criminal records if police had found them smoking drugs?
The pomposity of outrage
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Dominic Lawson: MPs have been quick to join in the confection of fury over Jimmy Carr's joke.
Only prison will deter the thugs that roam our estates
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Dominic Lawson: We imprison just 12 people for every 1,000 crimes, compared to 33 in Ireland
Dominic Lawson: Here's another phoney war: the one on climate change
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
There's no glory in spending $10m a year on giant nozzles that squirt sulphur dioxide
Dominic Lawson: Tracey gets her taxes in a twist
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Few bleats are less attractive to people than threats by the rich to quit the country
Let's not forget what Roman Polanski did
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: A man who drugged and sodomised a 13-year-old girl rarely receives such uncritical support.
Why should you have to pay for Strictly Come dancing?
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: Why is it necessary for the BBC to wage war against ITV, or indeed Sky?
Wonderful? No, Alan Clark was sleazy and cruel
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: Tory minister made his wife wretchedly miserable
Seventy years on, we are still appeasing dictators
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Dominic Lawson: In dealing with Libya the Foreign Office has been guilty of institutional cringe
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