<span>Another word for "platform" that would fit this concept would be "app" or "tool." These words would give the connotation of something that has utility and can be used for a positive end.</span>
Clegg’s twisting of the truth (for example, “What I’m trying to say is that having her as my guest happened suddenly, it wasn’t something I planned the moment the money came”), as soon as he wins the money, he moves to London and sets out to transform his “observations” into the entrapment of Miranda, the “rarity” he has decided to collect and keep as his own.