Amanda Platell

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell hates the snobbish left-wing press

• 25 November 2002

The Guardian, in the condescending fashion of the intellectual left, said the tabloids had got their way over Myra Hindley. In fact, their 27 million readers got their way

Watching brief - Amanda Platell winces at new Labour's acne

• 18 November 2002

"There were three in our marriage, too," said the wife of Paul Burrell, Diana's butler. By the end of a week of revelation and counter-revelation, there were 33

Watching brief - Amanda Platell worries about Paul Burrell

• 11 November 2002

Michael Portillo planned his putsch with military precision. "I'll stand if 100 MPs beg me," sang one headline. What is it with this guy, that he wants all before him on their knees?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell fails to be shocked by bosoms

• 04 November 2002

If Patricia "Who It?" Hewitt gets upset at the sight of a woman's bosom, it must be hell for her watching any episode of EastEnders

Watching brief - Amanda Platell won't have Angus Deayton home

• 28 October 2002

The latest revelations about Angus Deayton's private life leave him so exposed on Have I Got News For You? that he has to surrender the moral high ground to Christine Hamilton

Watching brief - Amanda Platell criticises Sunday coverage of Bali

• 21 October 2002

Did the Sunday Telegraph really believe that the death of scores of Australians was less important than a classic new Labour spin story about the Lottery?

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell wonders about Ken Clarke's pants

• 14 October 2002

The Tories blame their failure on the BBC, the Sun, the Financial Times - and as for Robert Thomson, editor of the Times, it was as if he'd been in bed with Edwina and John

Watching brief - Amanda Platell likes BBC bias out in the open

• 07 October 2002

The BBC cannot expect intelligent journalists to be political eunuchs. In any case, I'd rather know where its reporters (and programme editors) are coming from

Watching brief - Amanda Platell mourns Ronnie (and On the Record)

• 30 September 2002

The winning line-up for the BBC's new Saturday morning programme will decide the fate of political broadcasting: will it be strong and hot (macchiato), or frothy (Frappuccino)?

Watching brief - Amanda Platell records a new red-top success

• 23 September 2002

The success of the Daily Star Sunday is proof that, from Hampstead to Tunbridge Wells, the middle classes are still having a clandestine love affair with the red tops