Matthew Norman

Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent’s media diary.

Matthew Norman: Quit the carping and give volunteering a go

Get Pickles cleaning bins, Fox delivering babies, May counselling prostitutes, and Osborne wallpapering care homes in Tatton. We know they're busy. That's the point

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Matthew Norman: The least inspiring contest ever

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

You have to praise the lads, at this particular moment in the publishing cycle, for doing what they can to deflect accusations that the party is riven by babyish in-fighting

Matthew Norman: The ghouls, the narcissist and top jobs at CNN

Monday, 12 July 2010

With questions raised about the ghoulishness with which the media covered Raoul Moat's final days, a word of praise for two leaders of this frantic festival of broadcast Americana. Kay Burley, the Walter Cronkite du jour who so skillfully downplayed the horrors of 9/11 ("If you're just joining us, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States has been decimated ..."), added to her portfolio of triumphs on Sky News.

Matthew Norman: Blair the benefits scrounger

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Here is the former PM expecting the taxpayer to cough up untold amounts in order to protect him from the results of his self-indulgence in Iraq

Matthew Norman: A step that should have been too far

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

What was Mr Clegg thinking in acquiescing in the promotion of the born-to-crush sneer of superiority on Mr Osborne's Bullingdon face to official coalition policy?

Matthew Norman: What football says about a country

Friday, 18 June 2010

It is not the fear of losing that does them in. Losing's far too familiar an experience to frighten them a jot. It's the fear of winning

Matthew Norman: Mandelson and the memoirs

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

The traditional adverb to descibe the haste with which the newly box-deprived are scrambling to burden bookshelves is 'unseemly'. It doesn't go far enough

Matthew Norman: Her Maj has rarely made me happier

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

She did nothing to dull optimism that, thanks to the opportunistic adroitness of Messrs Cameron and Clegg, Britain is emerging from its somnambulistic nightmare

Matthew Norman: Brothers at war – it's a Jewish thing

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

In challenging a natural order of things stretching back to their Hampstead bunk beds, Ed shows the appetite for conflict that is an essential quality in an Opposition leader