Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell takes exception to some TV turkeys

• 26 July 2004

Why did the BBC think it could succeed where Blair failed: to make politics interesting to the young? The biggest turkeys in Greg Dyke's yoof initiative? Weekend and The Sharp End

Watching brief - Amanda Platell has doubts about Rod Liddle

• 19 July 2004

I don't have a lot of company in this, but I have always rather liked Rod Liddle. Sadly, it has become impossible to say this without sounding completely ridiculous

Watching brief - Amanda Platell can't forgive Bill Clinton's latest sin

• 28 June 2004

Bill Clinton claims that Nelson Mandela helped him through the darkest hours of Monica. He has such an ego that, in his own version of history, Zippergate is on a par with apartheid

Watching brief - Amanda Platell denounces Prince William

• 21 June 2004

Prince William, slaughtering pheasant and deer, failing to celebrate D-Day, omitting to visit his dying grandmother, has become the monarchy's greatest liability

Watching brief - Amanda Platell prefers state occasions on Sky

• 14 June 2004

Watching Hell's Kitchen made me wonder whether those brave D-Day veterans must sometimes ask themselves if this was a world worth saving after all

Watching brief - Amanda Platell asks what Seb Coe saw in Vanessa

• 07 June 2004

Sebastian Coe's blousy ex-mistress has just blown the whistle on their affair but no one has suggested he should resign as head of London's Olympic bid. Times have changed

Watching brief - Amanda Platell watches Posh fight back

• 31 May 2004

How very curious: claims about Alastair Campbell had appeared all over the Mail on Sunday yet, at his show that evening, not a soul asked him about them

Books

Like mother, like daughter

• 31 May 2004

Baggage: my childhood Janet Street-Porter Headline, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0755312651

Watching brief - Amanda Platell tips a woman to edit the Mirror

• 24 May 2004

The Mirror may now return to the ground that Piers Morgan abandoned by poaching its new editor from a celebrity magazine. At this end of the market, showbiz sells

Watching brief - Amanda Platell finds Today's audience plunging

• 17 May 2004

The Today programme has lost 150,000 listeners since the Hutton inquiry. One reason is the double acts: they have varying degrees of chemistry, and some just don't work