Alys Denby

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Opinion and Features Editor at City A.M.

Opinion & Features Editor @CityAM

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Lanza-grotty? Hardly! Why Lanzarote is actually rather fabulous

1 month ago | cityam.com | Alys Denby

Saturday 24 May 2025 9:42 am | Updated: Thursday 22 May 2025 12:51 pm Lanza-grotty? Hardly! Why Lanzarote is actually rather fabulous Lanzarote far outshines its ‘Lanza-grotty’ reputation “David Cameron tucks into five-star hotel buffet in Lanzarote,” read a headline in The Mirror in 2016.
Why can nobody paint the Royals?

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Alys Denby

Kingsley Amis used to have sex dreams about the late Queen (“Oh no, Kingsley, we mustn’t!). We are yet to learn whether, in the three years since his coronation, King Charles III has invaded the fantasies of Britain’s novelists. Looking at a painting of him that adorns the cover of the latest edition of Tatler, I doubt it. In an uncharacteristically drooping suit with hair like a cyberman’s helmet, His Majesty is not exactly shown to his best advantage in this picture.
US-UK deal is free trade in name only

1 month ago | cityam.com | Alys Denby |Eliot Wilson

Thursday 08 May 2025 4:53 pm US-UK deal is free trade in name only WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 08: A poster board is seen as U.S. President Donald Trump talks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. During his remarks Trump spoke about a trade deal with the United Kingdom that he announced today on Truth Social.
US-UK deal is free trade in name only

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alys Denby

9 hours agoDefence secretary grilled on UK-US trade deal: ‘People are concerned’Defence secretary John Healey has been grilled on reports of a UK-US trade deal. Donald Trump revealed his administration has reached an agreement with a “highly respected country” on Wednesday (7 May), and is expected to announce the deal with the UK at a news conference at about 3pm UK time today. Appearing on Sky News this morning, Mr Healey was grilled about the trade deal.
Free breakfast clubs are an admission the system has failed working parents

2 months ago | cityam.com | Alys Denby

Wednesday 23 April 2025 6:00 am | Updated: Tuesday 22 April 2025 7:35 pm Free breakfast clubs are an admission the system has failed working parents Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson talks with children as they attend Cherry Fold Primary School’s breakfast club on March 22, 2024 in Burnley, England (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Breakfast clubs are now essential for many working parents, but they don’t come free, writes Alys Denby in today’s Notebook Mornings...
Spring Statement should be Reeves' last

Mar 26, 2025 | cityam.com | Alys Denby

Wednesday 26 March 2025 3:16 pm Spring Statement should be Reeves’ last LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 26: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves 11, Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 in London, England.
This International Women's Day, spare a thought for men

Mar 6, 2025 | cityam.com | Alys Denby

Friday 07 March 2025 4:45 am | Updated: Wednesday 05 March 2025 5:26 pm This International Women’s Day, spare a thought for men QUENDON, ENGLAND – JANUARY 31: Young supporters applaud after Leader of the Reform UK Party Nigel Farage addresses the audience during a rally on January 31, 2025 in Quendon, England.
How barrow boy and banker Britain should make a deal with Trump

Jan 24, 2025 | msn.com | Alys Denby

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It's not just Waspi women, the government has taken everyone for fools

Dec 18, 2024 | cityam.com | Alys Denby

You don’t have to agree with the principle of the Waspi women’s campaign to sympathise with their feelings of betrayal. Cynicism is one thing in politics, but saying absolutely anything to get in power will ultimately harm democracy, says Alys DenbyWaspi stands for: Women Against State Pension Inequality. It’s a confusing name, because the cause of the group’s complaint is, in fact, pension equality – namely the raising of the retirement age for women to bring it into line with that of men.
What I learned at Westminster's Christmas parties

Dec 16, 2024 | cityam.com | Alys Denby

| Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say: Today it’s Michael Martins, founding partner at Overton Advisory, with the pen… We have entered the final week before Westminster breaks up for Christmas and I would like to continue a tradition that I started at the US embassy in London: a Christmas cable The weeks of holiday receptions before Christmas are the perfect time to gather political intelligence, so here are four things I learned over the season: First, Labour continues to...

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Alys Denby @alysdenby

9 Jun 25

It's hard enough to build anything in Britain without fiddly little regulations about holes in bricks. No bricks for swifts, no tunnels for bats

Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard

The Conservatives rejected swift bricks in government, and now Labour is backtracking despite supporting them in opposition. Swifts are one of Britain’s most iconic birds, and in steep decline, along with other cavity-nesting species. All they need is a brick with a hole. It’s https://t.co/mOOjvauBSb

Alys Denby @alysdenby

9 Jun 25

RT @Frencheconomics: Whilst not macroeconomic significant, it speaks to a problem that if Chancellors/PMs can’t find it politically intoler…

Alys Denby @alysdenby

9 Jun 25

I love it when ⁦@MayorofLondon⁩ lobbies the Chancellor via the medium of ⁦@CityAM⁩'s opinion pages https://t.co/6sqQS6oTid