Matthew Norman
Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent’s media diary.
Matthew Norman: Nightmare on Palin Street, Part 2
It is her status as the apotheosis of reality televison that explains her popularity
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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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Going in is not the issue now. Chilcot should be looking at how the occupation gave rise to such bloodshed
• Editor-At-Large: If kids can't read, how do they get a job?
Who's right? Last week, Ofsted delivered a report which claimed that around a third of our schools are substandard
• Dom Joly: My specialist subject is... sheer blind terror
Once again, it started with a telephone call a long, long time ago
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