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: Implanting a black face in Midsomer would be tokenism

The fact is that between town and country there is a colossal disconnect - two Englands unbridged by suburbia and divided by a common language

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Matthew Norman: Obama's second term is safe. Republicans will see to that

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

If Michelle Bachmann, another ultra-Godly, Creationist mom of five from the howling far right, is a new name to you, best get used to it

Get over it Dave, we're not a world power any more

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Matthew Norman: We suck up to the gerontocracy of Beijing, closing our eyes to its filthy human rights abuses because China is doing what no nation has done before.

Matthew Norman: Jamie chooses an unlikely role model for his pupils

Monday, 28 February 2011

Should you have missed the Channel 4 trailers, be warned that Jamie Oliver's philanthropic menu will be extended on Wednesday night to include education.

Matthew Norman: Reminders of Labour greed that are a gift to Cameron

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Eds Miliband and Balls are seeking to impose on their colleagues the very control freakery that Blair and Campbell pioneered in 1997

Matthew Norman: If the PM is such an idealist let's see him out volunteering

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

The suspicion hardens that his BS is an amalgam of long irrelevant noblesse oblige and barely less outmoded hippy idealism

Matthew Norman: One expects hypocrisy, but the amateurism is unforgivable

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

What is so specially nauseating is that Mr Brown and his pals believed they had played a blinder. They were as cocooned from their deceit as Eden was in 1956

Osborne's prescription could turn into his epitaph

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Matthew Norman: 'Yes it hurt, yes it made things worse,' isn't a slogan for a Chancellor. It's an epitaph.

Matthew Norman: After the tornado, Murdoch will still be left standing

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

If it became valuable to his commercial interests, he'd be belting out 'I Will Survive' from a float at a San Francisco gay pride parade, clad only in a gold lam� jock strap

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

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

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