PLATELL’S PEOPLE: The Gates gazillions made Bill and Melinda’s split MORE likely

On New Year’s Day last year, Melinda Gates told her Instagram followers that her heart was full as she ‘celebrated’ her long marriage to Bill, wishing a happy anniversary to ‘the man who keeps me dancing through life’. What a shock it was, then, when we heard this multi-billionaire couple are divorcing after 27 supposedly … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: The Gates gazillions made Bill and Melinda’s split MORE likely

On New Year’s Day last year, Melinda Gates told her Instagram followers that her heart was full as she ‘celebrated’ her long marriage to Bill, wishing a happy anniversary to ‘the man who keeps me dancing through life’. What a shock it was, then, when we heard this multi-billionaire couple are divorcing after 27 supposedly … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Keir Starmer will need to paper over this puerile John Lewis stunt 

Whichever spin doctor came up with the idea that Keir Starmer should appear on the campaign trail in John Lewis holding up a roll of wallpaper should be pasted against the wall and papered over permanently. Of all the facile and stupid stunts in a week when the Prime Minister had really been on the … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Keir Starmer will need to paper over this puerile John Lewis stunt 

Whichever spin doctor came up with the idea that Keir Starmer should appear on the campaign trail in John Lewis holding up a roll of wallpaper should be pasted against the wall and papered over permanently. Of all the facile and stupid stunts in a week when the Prime Minister had really been on the … 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: 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: 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