A minute or so later, another senior editorial figure within the group appears and takes the seat next to me, whereupon he proceeds to casually – as if he were merely straightening his pen on the table or reading the very newspaper we produce – slip his hand up my skirt and grope my thigh.
AMANDA PLATELL: I've spent 40 years being groped, grabbed, assaulted and kissed without consent.
Amanda Platell says some of the harassment she experienced was so beyond the pale, the incidents have stayed with her for years.
I should have felt proud, rightly taking my place at the board table, but instead he left me feeling grubby, humiliated and incandescent with rage.
I was outraged, yes, and baffled by the man’s assumption that this was in any way acceptable behaviour – for God’s sake, did he think I’d think it was sexy?
