Matthew Norman on The Independent

Matthew Norman: Obama has nothing to fear from this freakshow

01 February 2012 12:00 AM

The GOP is putting on a Tea Party-backed, smash hit revival of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Matthew Norman: Somebody's got to stick up for Chris Huhne...

25 January 2012 12:00 AM

He would have made an infinitely braver champion than Nick Clegg of his party's core beliefs

Matthew Norman: Cameron is the David Brent of welfare reform

18 January 2012 12:00 AM

The Prime Minister seems to be happy to pat the disabled on the head and then leave them behind

Matthew Norman: The minister who decided it was the right time to sell up

16 January 2012 12:00 AM

Raw courage being the extreme political rarity it is, we celebrate it where we may. So a deafening bravo to the Welsh Secretary, Cheryl Gillan. With bravery bordering on recklessness, it emerges, Cheryl sold her constituency home in Amersham in November, despite it standing 500 yards from the newly announced rail link HS2 (not to be confused with David Miliband, who is of course R2D2).

Matthew Norman: If politics is like sex, Ed will never find the national G-spot

11 January 2012 12:00 AM

For all the good that his 'relaunch' will do him, Miliband might as well have spoken in Klingon

Matthew Norman: Bradley Manning - the prisoner who exposes American hypocrisy

21 December 2011 12:00 AM

If we had no right to see US helicopter pilots gunning down civilians, what right do we have to know anything?

Matthew Norman: Clegg is helping his enemies to annihilate his own party

14 December 2011 12:00 AM

How he compounded his error by failing to foresee his colleagues' fury, God alone knows

Matthew Norman: Do unethical lobbyists feel any pain at the dirty, seedy role they play in politics?

07 December 2011 12:00 AM

For all the Michelin meals, first-class air travel and fat salaries, they are not to be envied

Matthew Norman: Rest in peace, Gary – the tabloids have shut up

30 November 2011 12:00 AM

Even a month ago, the red-top papers would have gorged themselves on a speculative feeding frenzy

Matthew Norman: What world are the Republicans living in?

23 November 2011 12:00 AM

There isn't space to catalogue the recent hilarities provided by GOP presidential wannabes

Matthew Norman: Margaret Thatcher is still big, it's the politicians that got small

16 November 2011 12:00 AM

The timing of the release of 'The Iron Lady' has a resonance that transcends normal critical criteria

Matthew Norman: Not quite Smokin' Ed, but he's landing punches

10 November 2011 12:00 AM

As we enter the middle rounds of this parliament, it strikes me that too many of us, me included, wrote off Miliband too soon

Matthew Norman: This is no return to ancient Greek democracy

02 November 2011 12:00 AM

With this referendum, Greece seeks to take Europe hostage and is screwing her in Olympian fashion

Matthew Norman: Has Cameron's lucky streak just run out?

26 October 2011 03:00 AM

An exceedingly bad week for the PM has implanted long-term doubts about his judgement

Matthew Norman: GPs - like glorified plumbers only with shorter hours

19 October 2011 12:00 AM

The British have only one national religion, Nigel Lawson famously observed, and it is the NHS. The former Chancellor was bang on the money back in the 80s, and today most of us still worship the great monolith. For all that, one sniffs a rise in heretical questioning, and even agnosticism. No sooner have the angels of geriatric nursing been stripped of their wings than the local priests, our general practitioners, come under attack.