Amanda Platell

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell thanks Dyke for the gift of Marr

• 09 February 2004

A word of advice for Michael Howard's press office: never book your leader's broadcasting schedule ahead of an unknown set of findings

Society

Nobody has the right to be a mother

• 02 February 2004

Amanda Platell explains why fertility treatment is not for her

Watching brief - Amanda Platell defends Richard Littlejohn

• 26 January 2004
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If Andrew Neil comes in with the Barclay brothers and does for the Daily Telegraph what he did for the Sunday Times, it would shake up the broadsheet market for a decade

Watching brief - Amanda Platell hates orange people

• 19 January 2004

To all those who defend Robert Kilroy-Silk's right to speak out, I simply ask: how would they react if James Naughtie described Israeli Jews as "limb amputators"? Asks Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell gives an award to GMTV's sofa

• 15 December 2003

GMTV wins the Sofa of the Year Award. All politicians want to be on that sofa, and you can't get Gordon Brown off it these days. What could that possibly mean? Asks Amanda Platell

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on Howard's first big mistake

• 08 December 2003

Michael Howard and his team just don't get it. In politics, it's not what you know but who you know. They've sacked the man who knows and is trusted by everyone in the media

Watching brief - Amanda Platell contemplates the end of broadsheets

• 01 December 2003

A decade ago, focus group after focus group found that the broadsheet brand image was important to readers. Yet now we may be facing the end of the broadsheet as we know it

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on the fall of Conrad Black

• 24 November 2003

The downside of Michael Green (ex-Carlton) buying the Telegraph is that he's a mate of Max Hastings, who knows where the bodies are buried and would be keen to bury more

Watching brief - Amanda Platell applauds Alastair Campbell

• 17 November 2003

Mark Bolland worked miracles for Charles, and I understand why he is angry. Loyalty is something the prince expects, but he does not always feel obliged to return it

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell sees the Telegraph spike IDS

• 10 November 2003

By refusing to publish Iain Duncan Smith's final call to arms, the Telegraph's new editor was sending a message: the era of the "Torygraph" is over