Mandy Rhodes: Two bongs don’t make it right to rub Remain voters noses in defeat
As the Christmas panto season limps to a close, the political players seem determined for give one last comedic curtain call. Oh, yes, they do…
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Mandy Rhodes: Mibbes aye, mibbes naw has never worked for Labour. It never will
Scottish Labour is possibly, maybe, perhaps, about to try and play catch up with Scotland.
Mandy Rhodes: A tale of two countries after FM gets needed vote of confidence
When the exit poll came, it came with a bang.
Mandy Rhodes: More bad news for her ministers but FM still feels no pain
I don’t know anyone who has any real enthusiasm for this week’s General Election.
Mandy Rhodes: Jo Swinson’s claims to be potential PM are just more fake news
In the same week the leader of the Liberal Democrats was forced to deny a fake news report that she fired stones at squirrels while calling them “pleb bunnies”, she also revealed an unequivocal willingness to fire nuclear weapons.
Mandy Rhodes: Liberals berating women? Feminists attacked from the left? Something is not right
Like a scene from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale, protesters gathered to scream at women arriving at a Toronto library last week.
Mandy Rhodes: Ruth Davidson’s new post is a sad indictment of the system she adores
The former leader of the Scottish Conservatives is described on her Twitter feed as someone who doesn’t “write the headline” but Ruth “I used to be a journalist” Davidson is certainly hitting them. And for all the wrong reasons.
Mandy Rhodes: Provost has 23 pairs of shoes but not one scrap of common sense
Hillary Clinton once joked that if she ever wanted to “knock a story off the front page”, all she had to do was change her hairstyle. Unfortunately, for Glasgow’s Lord Provost, it is her haircuts that have become the story.
Mandy Rhodes: Unionists will need to do more than keep the flag flying to save UK
It’s ironic the Tories are spending so much time debating how to bolster the Union after leaving the EU, given they have spent the last couple of years tearing it apart in their pursuit of Brexit.
Mandy Rhodes: It is pure Trump and, like Trump, Boris Johnson could not aim lower
Where were you when the Prime Minister was judged by the highest court in the land to have lied to the Queen?
Mandy Rhodes: You’re the leader, Jo Swinson, so what part of Liberal Democrat don’t you get?
Her big moment should have cast her as a heroic Boadicea-like-figure leading the charge in the March of the Moderates with a clear, coherent and potentially winning message for the Lib Dems on holding another referendum on Brexit.