Current Media Career
Platell returned to her media career, starting a television career through appearing both as a commentator and presenter on the Sky News programme Littlejohn. She later co-hosted a series on Channel 4 with Piers Morgan.
From 2002 she contributed as a freelancer to the Daily Mail, and began a featured column in the New Statesman magazine, mainly about the media. From 2007 Paul Dacre appointed her to a permanent contract with the Daily Mail, presently through her column "Platell's People" which appears on Saturdays. She also contributes a column on Wednesdays to Guardian, entitled a "Voice From the Right".
On 21 November 2011, at the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press, Platell was accused by Hugh Grant of a "hatchet job" on his recent fatherhood following an article she wrote for the Daily Mail.
On 10 December 2011, the Daily Mail published an article in which Platell stated that Justice Secretary Ken Clarke announces he is cracking down on crimes against transgenders, and doubling the minimum jail term for murderers motivated by the hatred of transgenders to 30 years, and raised the case of David Askew, a 64-year old man with learning difficulties who collapsed and died whilst confronting anti-social youths. Platell went on to assert that There are only a few thousand transgenders in the UK. In contrast, there are more than 1.5 million vulnerable people with learning difficulties like Mr Askew. So why is no legislation brought forward to protect them as well? Such legislation had already been in place for eight years, under section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
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