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Dominic Lawson

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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.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting on September 1, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Dominic Lawson: So who still thinks Israel is the root of Middle East

George Osborne and Ed Balls
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Help to Buy is a dangerous political placebo...

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Sorry, Chris Bryant - but who was it who wanted these Polish workers

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Where do these fracking protesters think energy is going to come from?

Stuart Broad celebrates the wicket of Australia's Shane Watson to get England on the board after an opening stand of 84 (Gareth Copley/Getty Images)
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Is Stuart Broad a cheat? I’d rather England's cricket team were

Salmond in the royal box at Wimbledon
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A genius on the court. But let’s keep Andy Murray out of politics

Mark Carney: 'For us, the global financial crisis was an external rather than an internal shock'
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We'd be wise not to put too much faith in Carney

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From the NHS to the police, public servants are putting their own

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I am Breathing: A dying man who reminds us just what life is for

Tim Yeo: A man of many interests
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Tim Yeo and James Caan: Some forms of hypocrisy are so extreme that we

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey
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There are green vested interests too, Mr Davey

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Carry on chillaxing, Prime Minister, we can cope with this in your

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Politicians may choose to hide behind the EU, but the electorate will

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Politicians may choose to hide behind the EU, but the electorate will

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), German composer. His romantic works revolutionized opera, with his use of leitmotif and dramatic power.
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On the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth, let's learn to love the

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Nazi killers really are worse than old perverts – even if both look

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Obama is right to prevaricate rather than intervene in Syria's civil

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How can Salmond argue Scotland shouldn’t have its own currency?

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How can Salmond argue Scotland shouldn’t have its own currency?

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Dominic Lawson: Believe it or not, Thatcher was a woman who cared

London Mayor Boris Johnson
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There’s something Churchillian about Boris Johnson. On the other

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Financial genocide? No – it’s more a case of financial suicide

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Forget privacy – it’s conversation Google is killing

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Prison will be a less terrifying experience for Chris Huhne than

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Iraq, 10 years on: Nation-building had been an act of folly before

An Italian Baroque masterpiece entitled 'The Rape of Europa' by Guido Reni c.1637 (far left) hangs at the National Gallery on February 19, 2013 in London, England. The painting is one of 57 Baroque masterpieces bequeathed by the late Sir Denis Mahon from his private collection, and will be distributed to museums and galleries across the UK.
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Why is free admission to art galleries and museums sacrosanct, when

A general view of the 18th Century mansion at Wrest Park on July 28, 2011 in Silsoe, England.
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For witch-hunt, read rich-hunt: All this talk of a mansion tax is just

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Iraq, 10 years on: Nation-building had been an act of folly before

An Italian Baroque masterpiece entitled 'The Rape of Europa' by Guido Reni c.1637 (far left) hangs at the National Gallery on February 19, 2013 in London, England. The painting is one of 57 Baroque masterpieces bequeathed by the late Sir Denis Mahon from his private collection, and will be distributed to museums and galleries across the UK.
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Why is free admission to art galleries and museums sacrosanct, when

A general view of the 18th Century mansion at Wrest Park on July 28, 2011 in Silsoe, England.
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For witch-hunt, read rich-hunt: All this talk of a mansion tax is just

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If fat men are disqualified from being President, politics has gone

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If fat men are disqualified from being President, politics has gone

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne arrives at The Cabinet Office entrance for a Cabinet meeting on May 17, 2011 in London, England.
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Chris Huhne’s downfall is another example of the amazing risks a

A refugee has gone on hunger strike to demand that the UK Border Agency returns his passport - and an unnamed NHS Trust has asked a court to decide if he can be forcibly fed
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If we want to limit immigration, why punish Chinese tourists?

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Now that's what I call a special relationship: why the alliance

Protestors take part in a demonstration calling for a referendum on the European Union (EU) Lisbon Treaty, outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, on February 27, 2008.
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Tell the British we can’t choose on the EU and we’ll want a vote

Protestors take part in a demonstration calling for a referendum on the European Union (EU) Lisbon Treaty, outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, on February 27, 2008.
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Tell the British we can’t choose on the EU and we’ll want a vote

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It is time to stop prostrating ourselves before the NHS God

David Cameron arrives to give a press conference at the EU Headquarters, on November 23, 2012 in Brussels, after a two-day EU leaders budget summit.
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Forty years on, the benefits of EU membership are no longer compelling

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A year older, and I still can’t believe that I’m not the youth I

UK Sale: £1.2bn... UK Tax: £0
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Amazon, Google Starbucks: why many people trust these business giants

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Whatever Lord Leveson says, Britain should hold on to its feral beast

Judit Polgar with her children Hanna and Oliver near their home in Budapest
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'I never wanted men's pity': Chess child prodigy Judit Polgar on the

Therese Garton, who has Down's Syndrome and was a Special Olympian, lights the Olympic cauldron in Victoria Square, Adelaide, Australia. With her is her mother, Bev.
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Would I want my daughter 'cured'? The dilemma of a father whose child

George Entwistle’s brief tenure at the BBC was a turbulent one, and included an appearance before a Commons Select Committee
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Jeremy Paxman is wrong: Newsnight's errors were the product of shoddy

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Affairs with his Secretary, incompetence, amateur boxing... how John

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (C) boards a train at St Pancras rail station with Education Secretary Michael Gove (2nd, R).
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Whether it's plebgate or the Great Train Snobbery, they're all out to

Students throw their mortarboards in the air during their graduation photograph at the University of Birmingham degree congregations on July 14, 2009 in Birmingham, England.
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We can't let this obsession with class compromise academic standards

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We can't let this obsession with class compromise academic standards

Students throw their mortarboards in the air during their graduation photograph at the University of Birmingham degree congregations on July 14, 2009 in Birmingham, England.
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Quite a few of the people who agree with Jeremy Hunt on abortion turn

The victorious European team get a feel for the Ryder Cup
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Winning the Ryder Cup is good. But don't mistake an amazing sporting

Danny Alexander MP has celebrated the launch of Ginger Rodent beer which shares the moniker fired at him as an insult by a Labour opponent
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Any Lib Dems who care to look at the figures will see the rich are

Japanese nationalists and surveyors on a disputed island in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese
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China is flexing its muscles: time to worry

Japanese nationalists and surveyors on a disputed island in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese
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China is flexing its muscles: time to worry

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Dominic Lawson: We thrill to these amazing deeds. But is it a level

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Dominic Lawson: Camera phones aren't just for peep shows

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Dominic Lawson: David Cameron can't count on any gains from the

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Dominic Lawson: Our athletes deserve better than this national dirge

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Dominic Lawson: Pull the plug more often on this infernal amplified

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Dominic Lawson: It takes more than a stroke of genius to become a true

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Dominic Lawson: Politicians know fiddling figures goes way beyond

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Dominic Lawson: Even now, Tony Blair won't admit that the eurosceptics

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Dominic Lawson: The public think our striking doctors are greedy. And

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Dominic Lawson: You can accuse the banks. But politicians should also

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Dominic Lawson: The euro needs a true union – but we can't just

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Dominic Lawson: The euro needs a true union – but we can't just

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Dominic Lawson: For a nation of non-conformists it feels like we're in

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Dominic Lawson: Don't blame Germany for not wanting to call Europe's

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Dominic Lawson: The fate of the euro is the chronicle of a death

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Dominic Lawson: Can Europe survive its cavaliers?

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Dominic Lawson: Can Europe survive its cavaliers?

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Dominic Lawson: One thing unites Le Pen voters and the left –

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Dominic Lawson: Class warfare in the age of philanthropy: Stop bashing

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Dominic Lawson: Freud knew what motivated the privileged class

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Dominic Lawson: Patriotism is why Thatcher's war won her the public's

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Dominic Lawson: Do we really want to give politicians more to waste?

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Dominic Lawson: The Olympics are about ambition, not national pride

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Dominic Lawson: Let church and state agree to differ on gay marriage

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Dominic Lawson: Spare me this faux outrage at sex-selected abortion

Lord Lucan: one of those stories that will always sell newspapers
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Dominic Lawson: My Lord Lucan episode shows why Murdoch has got it

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Dominic Lawson: Spare me these orgies of self-congratulation

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Dominic Lawson: If India doesn't want it, why are we still giving them

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Dominic Lawson: Olympian-scale wastage that was predicted – and then

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Dominic Lawson: Does more money make us happier? Of course it does

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Dominic Lawson: Let the public punish 'fat cats' if they really care

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Dominic Lawson: We're in trouble if we let the calendar dictate our

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Dominic Lawson: Bashing the banks won't do us, or the economy, any

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Dominic Lawson: Let the public punish 'fat cats' if they really care

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Dominic Lawson: We're in trouble if we let the calendar dictate our

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Dominic Lawson: Bashing the banks won't do us, or the economy, any

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Dominic Lawson: It is the haves going on strike, not the have-nots

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Dominic Lawson: Inflation is what people fear – and whose fault is

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Dominic Lawson: Good riddance to the great solar scam

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Dominic Lawson: You think a Greece can't happen here? Wrong ...

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Dominic Lawson: Voters just won't buy a federal Europe, Mr Clegg

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Dominic Lawson: Why can't an ex-PM try to make some money?

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Dominic Lawson: What's wrong with a former PM trying to make money?

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Dominic Lawson: Private companies' pay is up to them

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