Matthew Norman
Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent’s media diary.
Matthew Norman: Normality isn't what we expect from our monarchs
I can't imagine Kate Middleton having the captain of the England rugby team smuggled into Kensington Palace in the boot of a car
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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.
Matthew Norman: Parsimony, Topshop style
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
While it's fine to sit on an invoice from the manufacturer of opaque tights, the state can hardly be seen to send suppliers into receivership by staunching their cash flow
Matthew Norman: Hail the masochist tendency
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
For all the whiff of born-to-punish superiority that clings indeliby to the Chancellor, this is a politician of a selflessness that verges on the uncanny
Matthew Norman: Hillary's time may yet come
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Could Barack Obama conclude that an old enemy is better placed to safeguard America from Republican madness, and walk away with dignity, as well as relief?
Matthew Norman: Christine O'Donnell is one helluva scary witch
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The would-be senator's strictures on honesty make George Washington look like the love-child of Tony Blair and Walter Mitty
Matthew Norman: From the US comes a nasty whiff
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Sarah Palin has a serious, instinctive gift for connecting with the bemused and the credulous that it would be folly to underestimate
Matthew Norman: Ed Miliband is the only real man in Labour race
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
With the exception of Diane Abbott, whose parlaying of a minor TV career into D-list celebrity has been admirably opportunistic, this has been the Castrati Election
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• John Rentoul: Ed saved Gordon to get his job
Miliband could have helped unseat the former leader, but what good would that have done his own chances?
• Editor-At-Large: Mess with my GP's practice, Mr Lansley? Over my dead body!
Andrew Lansley is fast shaping up as my least favourite government minister
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What most people remember about the 2008 Beijing Olympic games is the spectacular opening ceremony
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