Category Archives: Amanda Platell

Internet Trolling, Twitter and the Daily Mail

August 18, 2012 – 9:51 am

Tweet The Daily Mail has a long history of attacking Twitter users as sad loners trading insults anonymously with each other and directing their ire at celebrity targets en masse when it suits them – as if Twitter is one giant hive mind. This then seems to contradict with the other articles that the Daily [...]

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Amanda Platell on Rory Weal

October 1, 2011 – 12:05 pm

Tweet The Daily Mail is nothing if not predictable. After Nick Clegg made a good impression during the first party leader TV debate Mail writer en masse set about doing their best to smear him – as if they had received orders from on high that they just had to work in some kind of [...]

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‘A lower standard of person’

June 18, 2011 – 9:40 am

Tweet I knew one of the Daily Mail’s overpaid columnists wouldn’t be able to miss passing judgement on the vulgar lower classes who dared to attend Ascot: ‘Death of civility and the rise of the vulgarians‘ [istyosty.com link], is the headline for Amanda Platell’s latest brain-vomit. What I find strange is the assumption that the [...]

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Stop blaming teachers

March 6, 2011 – 1:33 pm

Tweet It’s my own fault that I’m sat here typing this, I know I shouldn’t ever read anything by Amanda Platell because she’s just a typically simplistic Daily Mail writer to whom everything is easily explained away with a few right-wing cliches. She starts with Jamie Oliver’s Dream School and explains that all of the [...]

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