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

Perhaps a mass campaign to switch accounts from the bank with the highest-paid CEO?

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

The reason forecasting is so often an abject failure is both familiar and predictable

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

There is no evidence to suggest that incentive structures led to people taking excessive risks

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

If there is a class divide in the employment market, the underdogs are not the public sector

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

MPs of all parties have belatedly addressed themselves to the public's concern

Dominic Lawson: Good riddance to the great solar scam

Britain's plunge into this grotesque subsidy has come at a time when other countries have pulled back

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

State-sector pensions cost £32bn a year – more than the police, prisons and courts combined

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

We might come to feel part of a Europe-wide political community but it would take generations

Dominic Lawson: Why won't Huhne celebrate our gas windfall?

The discovery offers the prospect of cheap, secure energy for decades, if not centuries

Dominic Lawson: Cameron is facing class war, in his own party

Many Tory backbenchers feel their leader is still at heart the Old Etonian upper-class bon vivant

Dominic Lawson: More migrants please, especially the clever ones

Over half of those at the helm of start-ups in Silicon Valley have been migrants

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

It isn't necessary for people to believe that Blair is a mass-murderer in order for them to suffer from what's been called 'Blair Derangement Syndrome'

Dominic Lawson: Private companies' pay is up to them

Unless what top directors receive is gargantuan, it will not be more than a tiny percentage of the company's income

Dominic Lawson: Even a genius can't have it all - if she's a woman

She wanted a life that allowed her to be a good mother and to have hobbies and pastimes, in other words to enjoy a whole world unconnected to chess

Dominic Lawson: We betrayed our values with torture

The heroism of the public response has been polluted by what has been done in our name to prevent a second 9/11

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