PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Dead seal QC should muzzle her dog, not the media

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Dead seal QC should muzzle her dog, not the media By Amanda Platell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 22:48 GMT, 26 March 2021 Who can fail to have been horrified by the sight of Freddie the seal pup being savagely attacked by a snarling dog on … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Why online dating apps are such a turn off 

Tomorrow’s the day when loved-up couples exchange roses and chocolates and rejoice in their good fortune, while singletons lament their lot, hope for Valentine’s cards — and, perhaps, desperately swipe right on their iPhone dating apps. Right means you like the look of them, swipe left and it’s thanks but no thanks. Around half of … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Prince Harry could have earned our respect as an inspiring Covid vaccine hero

Dressed in military fatigues, towering over the PM with a true-grit, can-do attitude . . . what a heartening presence of booming no-nonsense Brigadier Phil Prosser was at the No 10 press conference this week. The Army had arrived was his message, and would get the vaccine out in short order and into people’s arms. … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Shattering human cost of putting Covid first

Has any story of grief in this terrible Covid year been quite so harrowing as that of La‘Troya Hall? Has any tale brought home so heart-stoppingly the human cost of our failure to treat cancer patients as we should have during the pandemic? Yesterday in the Mail, La’Troya told of her husband Sherwin’s death from … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Associate of Manchester Arena bomber is to be released from jail 

Haven’t the families of the 22 who died in the Manchester Arena bombing suffered enough? During the inquiry into the atrocity, they have had to endure hearing how it took 40 minutes for a paramedic to arrive after the bombing when children were bleeding to death. They were told the most senior officer on duty, … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: We will all remember how Boris Johnson poisoned Poppy Day 

Tomorrow, were it not for the lockdown, I would be fastening a poppy to my lapel and heading to church under the wintry sky for one of the most solemn ceremonies in this country’s calendar. Like millions of Britons on Remembrance Sunday, I’d pay homage and give thanks to those who died for us. For … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Yes, Myleen Klass you ARE mum to the babies that you lost

Myleene Klass’s revelation that she is ‘Mama to seven children’ is confusing. She has two daughters by her ex-husband and a son by her current partner. By anyone’s calculation that’s three kids. But she was including in her family the four babies she miscarried. She told of the trauma she suffered, describing the souls she … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Lover-boy Bradley Wiggins may be riding for a fall… 

Barely five months after cycling hero Sir Bradley Wiggins announced he and his wife of 16 years had decided to separate, he tells the world he is all ‘loved up’ with a blonde PR girl. In his ‘separation tweet’ (so hideously fashionable for the famous these days) back in May, the five-time Olympic gold medallist … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: The madness of Auntie’s obsession with gender

Take a deep breath.  The BBC is encouraging all its staff to be be more sensitive to transgender and non-binary colleagues in emails, and include the pronouns they’d like to be called by in their email signatures. If I were to email, say, Jeremy Vine, I would stipulate at the end of it that I’d … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Ghislaine Maxwell, a daddy’s girl who never escaped his toxic legacy

The first time I met Ghislaine Maxwell was back in the mid-Eighties. She was the fabulously rich and sophisticated daughter of mighty media mogul Robert Maxwell, wafting in and out of the parties he held at his Mirror offices in London. I was a humble executive on the launch of his newspaper The London Daily … Read more