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.
How can the state justify supporting homeopathy?
Dominic Lawson: It's terrifying what chemists recommend when asked for 'a natural remedy'
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Dominic Lawson: So these climate revelations were a dastardly foreign plot
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
It hasn't occurred to King that the emails might have been leaked by an insider
Who can say a dependent life is a pointless life?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Dominic Lawson: Other people's sympathies are with Frances Inglis. Mine are with her son.
What does class mean?
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Dominic Lawson: Outside Westminster, Balls would seem indistinguishable from Tory leader
Dominic Lawson: The police would rather advise us than protect us
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Had Mr Singh dialled 999, does anyone believe the muggers would've been caught?
If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Dominic Lawson: People meekly accept official behaviour, even if they might strongly suspect it is the police who are behaving illegally
Some Christians forget that Jesus was Jewish
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Dominic Lawson: Jews do not come knocking on your door at an unlikely hour like some Christian evangelicals
Roll up, roll up for the emissions-fest
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Dominic Lawson: : Do world leaders truly believe what they say about the imminence of planetary disaster?
Dominic Lawson: The feeble thinking that would keep Cadbury British
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Britain has gained more than it has lost by being open to foreign capital investment
Dominic Lawson: Europe will always be a foreign land for the British
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
'The Continent' is what we called it, with the understanding we were not of it
Can we please stand up for Michael McIntyre?
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Dominic Lawson: Comedy shows based on shocking us carry the seeds of their own destruction
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