Mandy Rhodes
Mandy Rhodes is Managing Editor of Holyrood Communications.
Mandy is editor of the flagship title Holyrood magazine and responsible for the editorial content of all other associated titles and products. Mandy graduated from StirlingUniversity in the early 1980s with a joint Honours degree in Scottish History and Sociology. She trained on a local newspaper in Wester Hailes and completed her journalism training at Napier University. She has worked for nearly 30 years in journalism in Scotland in newsprint, television and radio broadcasting and was part of the launch team of Scotland on Sunday. She has won numerous awards over the years including PPA Magazine Editor of the Year, Feature Writer of the Year and Columnist of the year. She was social affairs correspondent at Scotland on Sunday where she broke a number of major child abuse stories and regularly lectured at Liverpool and Aberdeen universities on child protection issues and has also taken part in a number of documentaries on the subject. Mandy brings a wealth of media experience to Holyrood Communications and an unparalleled contacts book. Articles by Mandy Rhodes:
- Array Last week I was interviewed by the Voice of Russia radio station about my views on the referendum debate. I fear it descended into a rammy worthy of the Jeremy Kyle Show. To be fair, the London-based reporter began the interview by saying he didn’t know anything about the Scottish referendum but...
- Array The quasi-state funeral of Margaret Thatcher was a reminder of how planet politics was a land once stalked by big political beasts. She may have been a divisive figure in life but in death, politicians of all sides gathered in St Paul’s to sit side-by-side, to as much, one suspects, pay their...
- Array Three comedians walk into a bar in an independent Scotland and everybody laughs. It’s no joke, but if we are to believe the pro-independence camp, humour, like everything else post-referendum, will run rich, like milk and honey. But for now, Scotland, it seems, has had a sense of humour by-pass....
- Array Fifteen pages into Tam Dalyell’s fascinating autobiography, The Importance of Being Awkward – which goes some way to explaining how an old Etonian toff from Linlithgow became a rebellious Labour MP elected to a West Lothian mining constituency – he reveals that his granny, Mary Marjoribanks...
- Array When Margaret Thatcher said in an interview in 1987 that there was no such thing as society, she was pilloried by the left for her indifference to the plight of the vulnerable, the sick and the ordinary man and woman in the street. Her words were, her critics believed, stark evidence of her...
