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.
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Columnist Comments
• Cameron is following in footsteps of Hague
Both sought to modernise their party. In both cases, the results were mixed
• Hamish McRae: Tax if you must, but do so effectively
First and foremost tax must raise revenue; but then only at the lowest possible cost
• Mark Steel: Things can happen when you travel on a Virgin train
It seems that it is being run by philosophers from the 13th century
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2 Johann Hari: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour
3 Steve Richards: Cameron is following in the footsteps of Hague
4 Mark Steel: Things can happen when you travel on a Virgin train
5 Johann Hari: Cruel and out of control: the new face of debt collecting
6 David Davis: Why this ferocious desire to impose hair-shirt policies?
7 Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship
8 John Curtice: Now Cameron has reason to worry
9 Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich: Arrival of more troops will arouse suspicion in Pakistan
10 Dominic Lawson: The feeble thinking that would keep Cadbury British
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2 Hamish McRae: Tax if you must, but do so effectively
3 Johann Hari: A morally bankrupt dictatorship built by slave labour
4 Steve Richards: Cameron is following in the footsteps of Hague
5 Leading article: A policy of calm remains the best course with Iran
6 Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich: Arrival of more troops will arouse suspicion in Pakistan
7 The abolition of double jeopardy will undermine confidence in British justice
8 Johann Hari: The real reason Obama is not making much progress
9 Andrew Grice: The summit poses a possible headache for the Tory leader
10 Dominic Lawson: The feeble thinking that would keep Cadbury British
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2Melting ice sheets threaten defences
3I did not bully Lord Goldsmith, insists Blair
4UK heading for a hung parliament, poll shows
5Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship
7Police kill coffee shop massacre suspect
8Michael McCarthy: Will history see this as a turning point for climate change?
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