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By: Alys Denby

Alys Denby is opinion and features editor of CityAM. She writes the weekly Free Thinking newsletter and presents the video series of the same name. She regularly appears in broadcast media including BBC, Channel 5 Sky News, Times Radio, LBC and GB News. She has previously worked for a think tank and as a parliamentary researcher

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  • Eco activists calling for literature festival boycotts should read a book

    May 20, 2024

    Writers signing a letter calling on book festival sponsor Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels exhibit a lazy habit of mind that has no place in literature, says Alys Denby The arts should always be anti-establishment. Only an autocracy would demand that all its creative output mindlessly cohered to the values of the regime. [...]

  • Humza Yousaf’s SNP is more like a cult than a political project

    April 30, 2024

    The SNP has held on to power in Scotland through the force of personality of its leaders and the pursuit of independence at all cost

  • Sadiq Khan should remember there’s no such thing as a free lunch

    April 19, 2024

    Free school meals for the children on multi-millionaires is classic Khan – superficial, unevidenced and the wrong priority for London, says Alys Denby Sadiq Khan has made the promise of permanent free school meals the centrepiece of his reelection campaign. It’s typical of the Mayor’s approach to governing, being utterly superficial, unevidenced and the wrong [...]

  • The £950bn pension plan: Why the ‘triple lock’ is entirely unsustainable

    April 9, 2024

    The current pension age is 66 but if you were born after 5 April 1960 it’s 67. This is set to rise to 68, but a decision on the exact timetable has been deferred until after the election

  • Rachel Reeves is cherry-picking Thatcher’s legacy – and not just the good bits

    March 20, 2024

    Rachel Reeves talks of a 1979 moment - but some policies veer away from those that Margaret Thatcher would have approved

  • Tories should get back to the real world – just not the one Lee Anderson lives in

    March 13, 2024

    Far from reflecting ‘the real world’, the Anderson extended universe is as full of artifice as anything else in politics, says Alys Denby Lee Anderson’s show on GB News is called The Real World, yet behind the scenes it’s anything but. The show is broadcast on a Friday evening and set up to give viewers [...]

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