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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Matthew Norman: Truth will out for Coulson and Blair, but don't hold your breath

The protagonists will continue to tell their half truths, lies of omission, and outright whoppers. This is how scandal unfolds in dozy apathetic Britain

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Matthew Norman: Let's hope Alan Johnson doesn't get asked about stamp duty

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

The mood music at which Johnners can excel is important. But you can't make music of any kind without knowing the individual notes

A very clever twit – and a proud man

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Matthew Norman: Vince Cable's political neck has narrowly avoided being placed in a noose and broken.

Matthew Norman: Ken's sacking must surely be on Cameron's Christmas list

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

The autocratic Mrs Thatcher would have fired Clarke in an instant for brazenly challenging her on fixed sentences for knife crime

Matthew Norman: How, in an instant, I came to love the real Jim Naughtie

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

The obituaries might as well be written. Whatever else he has done or has yet to do, he will be remembered solely for that inter-consonantal ballistic missile.

Matthew Norman: Bring back Westminster's Barbra Streisand

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

The public may not love Mandy, but they respect his intellect, trust his judgment and know him as the last Labour superheavyweight in either House

Matthew Norman: Normality isn't what we expect from our monarchs

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

I can't imagine Kate Middleton having the captain of the England rugby team smuggled into Kensington Palace in the boot of a car

How did this wastrel ever get to the White House?

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Matthew Norman: There seems even less to him than met the eye, and there was precious little of that.

Matthew Norman: Ann Widdecombe, the prisoners' pin-up. Who'd have thought it?

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Thanks to 'Strictly', she has left Michael Howard in the nocturnal darkness, and staggered blinking into the sunlit uplands of public fondness

Matthew Norman: Alan Johnson is just the man for the battle Labour must fight

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

The Shadow Chancellor needs to do what doesn't come naturally to him, and get livid about this systemic attack on human potential

Matthew Norman: What next, trigger-less rifles?

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Here’s a suggestion for the Secretary of State. Good doctor, turn the aircraft-less carriers into museums themed on our imperial past. In spirit, that’s what they are anyway.

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