Matthew Norman
Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent’s media diary.
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No wonder the Queen raised an eyebrow while she read it
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Matthew Norman: She may not be a genius but she's clever enough to know that she's parroting gibberish
Resistance is futile
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Matthew Norman: Simon Cowell has no need to play God. On Greek mythological lines, he is a god
Alan Johnson, casualty of addiction to power
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Matthew Norman: The Home Secretary has become dependent on something very nasty
Isn't it time Gordon Brown was put out of his misery?
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Matthew Norman: Everything this reverse Midas touches turns to plutonium.
Of New Labour toadies, Jack Straw must be worst
Friday, 23 October 2009
Matthew Norman: His entire career is a gruesome paradigm of the enfeeblement of Westminster politcs.
Thank you, Sir Thomas
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Matthew Norman: The dunces who are our MPs still cannot grasp that they have been naughty.
Matthew Norman: Osborne's gamble might just pay off
Thursday, 8 October 2009
The shadow chancellor trusts the public's realism about the pickle we're in
Matthew Norman: The perfect New Labour scandal
Thursday, 24 September 2009
It's as an unwitting yet talented seamstress that I'll remember Baroness Scotland
Smokers should be praised
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Matthew Norman: They contribute many billions more to the economy than they take in healthcare
Prepare for dreary months
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Matthew Norman: The script for the period from now till the next election is already written.
Columnist Comments
• Bruce Anderson: Toryism does believe that there is society
Thatcher believed concern for the bottom was 'wet'. Cameron is opposite
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Help, I'm feeling sorry for Blair
We should have had ordinary Iraqi and British citizens on the inquiry panel
• Andreas Whittam Smith: The Commons has lost all power
If MPs want more influence they must stop whining and raise their game
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2 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I'm beginning to feel some sympathy for Tony Blair
3 Johann Hari: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour
4 Bruce Anderson: Traditional Toryism does believe that there is society
6 Robert Fisk: India may hold whip hand in this power game
7 Simon Carr: So, scientists are just as political as the rest
8 Andreas Whittam Smith: The Commons has lost all power
9 Robert Fisk’s World: We're not taken in by luxury hotels' new green awareness
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3 Bruce Anderson: Traditional Toryism does believe that there is society
4 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I'm beginning to feel some sympathy for Tony Blair
5 Liz Hoggard: I've been dumped. How cool is that?
6 Matthew Norman: No wonder the Queen raised an eyebrow while she read it
7 Johann Hari: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour
8 Richard Ingrams’s Week: Will Zionists' links to Iraq invasion be brushed aside?
9 Howard Jacobson: If the Coens were going back to their Jewish roots, they must have lost their way
10 Christina Patterson: Forgiveness? All very nice, but rather overrated
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1Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I'm beginning to feel some sympathy for Tony Blair
2Britain faces return to Victorian levels of poverty
4Switzerland votes to ban the building of minarets
5Captain Doug Beattie: Those who have never been in Helmand give their view, but the soldiers are sil
6Four police officers shot dead in Tacoma
7Ministers fear Iraq backlash will lose Labour the election
8John Rentoul: The really disturbing question about Iraq
9Brown step closer to increasing Afghan troops
10Bruce Anderson: Traditional Toryism does believe that there is society



