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Mandy Rhodes, managing director of Holyrood Communications and editor of the flagship title Holyrood magazine, is responsible for the editorial content of all other associated titles and products

Mandy Rhodes

Mandy Rhodes

@holyroodmandy

Caroline Flack's death shows we should all pause and reflect on how we use social media

Caroline Flack's death shows we should all pause and reflect on how we use social media

Caroline Flack's death didn’t happen in a vacuum

by Mandy Rhodes

Lockdown lift-off

Communities, Housing & Planning

Lockdown lift-off

Managing risk

How can Boris Johnson call his government's response to COVID-19 a success?

Society & Welfare

How can Boris Johnson call his government's response to COVID-19 a success?

Society & Welfare

Caring for the carers

Society & Welfare

Wartime metaphors around battling COVID-19 are not helping anyone

This illness is coming, and it is changing us all

What the Alex Salmond case was about, and what some people want it to be about, are very different things

Flatten the curve

On reform of the Gender Recognition Act

With just over a year before the next election, Jackson Carlaw will need to ride two horses at the same time

The case for indyref2 must be rooted in the present, but these days the SNP would find it tricky to campaign on ‘team, record, vision’

Society & Welfare

The Care Review must unveil a Scottish system that finally does what it says on the tin

Using Big Ben to celebrate Brexit would only serve to rub salt in the country's wounds

If Labour has any chance of survival, it needs to stop blaming the SNP for its demise

Waking up in 2020 after the usual festive bender with a banging head, dry mouth and the creeping fear

Election results across the north of England appeared rooted in contradictory political positions

In an election rooted in duplicity, Jack Merritt's life shows us an alternative

Trust has become the real issue in this election

There's a terrifying pattern of mendacity to Boris Johnson's government

Women represent half the population but we are still waiting for fundamental change

Ruth Davidson’s relatively short-lived foray into the world of politics has been a phenomenal career move

Eva Bolander's shopping list has done us all a disservice

Moderate Scottish Tories have found themselves in a very lonely place

War of words

A liberal view of democracy

It’s galling that the menopause is seen as yet another thing that women should grit their teeth and get through

The Scottish Government’s clumsy attempts to reform the Gender Recognition Act have inadvertently opened a hornet’s nest

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