Dominic Lawson
Dominic Lawson was editor of the Spectator from 1990 to 1995
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness