Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell feels for Beck's bruised face

• 24 February 2003

The great Becks v Fergie match was all about saving face. Beckham has to preserve the pouting good looks that turned him into the Liz Hurley of Old Trafford

Watching brief - Amanda Platell is outraged by the Zeta-Joneses

• 17 February 2003

Catherine Zeta-Jones wept tears at the high court because she had been violated by a cake fork. But if she defeats Hello! will journalists be able to expose hypocrites in public life?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell squirms during the rehab interview

• 10 February 2003

While Jeremy Vine and Krishnan Guru-Murthy shape up as the heavyweight new stars of political broadcasting, Andrew Rawnsley robs Polly Toynbee of an award

Watching brief - Amanda Platell reads much warbling in the papers

• 03 February 2003

On the war, the only dove worth its feathers is the Mirror, the only hawk the Sun. The rest are warblers, singing with a succession of constantly changing notes

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on Rebekah, breasts and bottoms

• 27 January 2003

The pro-war newspapers have almost ten million buyers, while the anti-war ones have fewer than three million. So can we really say that the press leads public opinion?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell wants to pull a Kate Winslet

• 20 January 2003

Seeing what it's done for Kate Winslet, I would like to digitally enhance John Prescott's arse (too much work there) and Cherie's thighs (that's Carole Caplin's job gone, then)

Watching brief - Amanda Platell mourns Mark Bolland's departure

• 13 January 2003

Prince Charles is right to be dejected by the departure of Mark Bolland. Without his spin-doctor, the prince risks revealing that he is as adept at public relations as his father

Watching brief - Amanda Platell predicts Alastair Campbell's exit

• 16 December 2002

Who wouldn't be grateful to the woman who managed to transform your Lennox Lewis thighs - even if she did go in for mutual toxin massages and sexual releasing exercises?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell has a go at Popbitch

• 09 December 2002

How strange that the founder of Popbitch is Neil Stevenson, editor of The Face - a magazine that regularly features the very stars that Popbitch smears

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell wants a top-up

• 02 December 2002

Top-up fees? Since when was an increase from £1,100 to £5,000 or even £15,000 a top-up? Perhaps the firefighters should have called their 40 per cent claim a top-up, writes Amanda Plattell