Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell cheers on Jenni Murray

• 07 March 2005

How to spot the difference between Lady Di and Cherie, the dumping of TV's Pavarotti, and a great turnout for one of the finest men in the business

Watching brief - Amanda Platell laments her marriage to Piers

• 28 February 2005

Head to head with the Queen of Chavs, my marriage to a partner of inferior rank, and why the Sun is just not funny any more

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell observes a very fit PM

• 21 February 2005

How the drama of Ken Livingstone unfolded before our eyes, Tony Blair shows off his six-pack, and the sad cases of the rejected football lovers

Watching brief - Amanda Platell

• 07 February 2005

Down Under with the Grasping One, the special circumstances of Kate Moss, and why Simon Jenkins is abandoning his organ

Watching brief - Amanda Platell turns off a Today presenter

• 31 January 2005

A sad Monday for Today's Sarah Montague, the mystery of Charles Kennedy's waistline, and Stella McCartney's hypocritical shoes

Watching brief - Amanda Platell pays her debt to Germaine

• 24 January 2005

Every woman owes a great debt to Germaine Greer and therefore a little forgiveness when she screws up - as she did by deciding to go on Big Brother

Society

Amanda Platell warns against flings with footballers

• 06 December 2004

The perils of doing it with footballers, and mums crippled by their Jimmy Choos

Society

Amanda Platell can't bear the new, snobbish Today

• 29 November 2004

Portillo should know better than to ruin a man by calling him a future Tory leader

Society

Amanda Platell can't bear the Paula Radcliffe saga

• 22 November 2004

I bump into Rod Liddle's girlfriend. Argh! I wrote that he should go back to his wife

Society

Amanda Platell finds The X Factor tasteless

• 15 November 2004

The duo from The X Factor moaned as loudly as if they'd been held at Guantanamo Bay