Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell tips a female editor for the Daily Mail

• 05 May 2003

Could the next editor of the Daily Mail be a woman? And would that silence the critics who accuse the paper of being irredeemably misogynistic?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell considers Galloway and forgeries

• 28 April 2003

British intelligence could well have forged the George Galloway documents. But not the Telegraph itself: newspapers can never recognise forgeries, let alone make them, writes Amanada Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell likes the BBC's Scud Stud

• 21 April 2003

If Rageh Omaar was the BBC's Scud Stud, Andrew Gilligan was the Scud Dud, getting so emotional on the Today programme that I had to switch off

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on the diet that displaced the war

• 14 April 2003

You knew when the Daily Mail marked the victory of Basra with the South Beach Diet on its front page - lose a stone in two weeks - that the end of the war was in sight

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on how the Mirror is getting it right

• 07 April 2003

How important was the checkpoint massacre? Very, if you read the Mirror or the Guardian; not very, if you read the Mail or the Sun; and not at all, if you read the Express

Watching brief - Amanda Platell finds Max Hastings too gung-ho

• 31 March 2003

In the Sunday Telegraph, General Max Hastings dismissed reports from "emotional broadcasters" about "heavy fighting". These are indeed difficult times for newspapers

Watching brief - Amanda Platell explores the Sun-Blair axis

• 24 March 2003

If you want to know exactly what Tony Blair's intentions and tactics are, keep a very close eye on the Sun's headlines and editorials

Watching brief - Amanda Platell

• 17 March 2003

The Daily Telegraph looks to be losing its battle with the Daily Mail for the readers of Middle England, and not just because the Mail has stolen its journalists and its gossip column

Watching brief - Amanda Platell finds the Telegraph heavier than ever

• 10 March 2003

The new-look Daily Telegraph clearly believes Anne Robinson is its strongest link. Yet when she left the Daily Mirror for Today, neither paper lost or gained a single reader

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on Cherie, Queen of Sacred Hearts

• 03 March 2003

At David Yelland's star-studded goodbye party, Cherie confronted her chief tormentor Richard Littlejohn, while Mandy was overheard hissing "shit" at a journalist