Alys Denby
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Opinion & Features Editor @CityAM
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Joined August 2011
Free Thinking is the new opinion newsletter from @CityAM Every week I'll bring you all the best writing on markets, innovation, entrepreneurship and wealth creation from our opinion pages - including fab columnists like @emmamrevell @ElizaFilby @PMArslanagic @SirSimonClarke 1/2
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💬 "It's a bottomless pit." 💬 "We need politicians to be honest." @michaeljswalker and @alysdenby debate whether the NHS is failing or whether it needs more money to cope with an increasing and ageing population. @StormHuntley | #StormHuntley
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Feeding your children isn’t being “out of pocket” - it’s your first responsibility as a parent. To abdicate that responsibility to the state is to embark on a dangerous path
Parents shouldn’t be out of pocket by setting their children up for school. That’s why we are rolling out free breakfast clubs and from next September, schools will be required to limit branded items of uniform. Saving families £500 and giving kids the best start in life.
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‘Un-British. Problematic. Medieval.’ Are women-only train carriages the answer? Journalist @alysdenby doesn’t think so.
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Excited to welcome Tom as a regular columnist in City AM! He'll be bringing his wit, insider knowledge and sharp analysis to our opinion pages every fortnight Pick up your hard copy in the Square Mile, download our app and subscribe to our Free Thinking newsletter
Fantastic to join @CityAM - where you’ll be able to read me every other Thursday👇 https://t.co/RSMgLaSszu
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I wonder why it’s highest in misogynist theocracy Saudi Arabia 🤔
Fertility rate (births per woman) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2.28 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 2.13 🇮🇳 India: 1.98 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.91 🇫🇷 France: 1.66 🇺🇸 United States: 1.62 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1.62 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 1.56 🇹🇷 Turkey: 1.51 🇦🇺 Australia: 1.5 🇷🇺 Russia: 1.41 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.39 🇨🇦 Canada: 1.26 🇯🇵 Japan:
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Worth bearing in mind next time Nish Kumar rants about young people having no chance of getting a home of their own. He's right that it's a big issue - but weirdly is now contributing to its persistence.
Popular comedians James Acaster and Nish Kumar have been intervening in housing - leading an attempt to block plans for 800 new homes to be built in Peckham, SE London. Onward director Sir Simon Clarke says this "luxury belief" is hitting savers and potential first time buyers.
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@alysdenby The local campaign that Acaster and Kumar should be spending time on is the redevelopment of Peckham Rye station - busiest station in the UK without step free access and an appalling, empty building in front of it
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Peckham is "ground zero" for London's housing crisis with the 3rd highest number of people in temporary accommodation. There are schools where most of the children have no permanent home. 35% "affordable" makes most developments unviable. In practice it means no houses
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I live in Peckham and this campaign has astonishing reach among gentrifiers like me. I regularly get messages about it on mums' and neighbourhood whatsapps objecting to "luxury" instead of "affordable" flats - the irony appearing lost on many of fellow middle-class Peckhamites
Popular comedians James Acaster and Nish Kumar have been intervening in housing - leading an attempt to block plans for 800 new homes to be built in Peckham, SE London. Onward director Sir Simon Clarke says this "luxury belief" is hitting savers and potential first time buyers.
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Left wing comedians blocking new homes? It’s beyond a joke. My article for @CityAM & video below👇 https://t.co/rEBgs0tq7n
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Want to know more about the stories hitting Monday's front pages? @skygillian is joined by The Independent's James Rampton and City AM's @alysdenby to discuss the headlines. 🕒 From 10.30pm 📱 https://t.co/uoJkwF7RKq 📺 Sky 501
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"My feeling is, we're not going to get a breakthrough at all." Trump believes he can "solve all the worlds problems" with his "charisma" but it won't work with Putin, says The Times's Michael Binyon.
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🏗️Why is Sadiq Khan slashing affordable quotas? Because astonishingly, more housing starts in London last year were approved under Boris Johnson's London Plans, not Khan's - nine years after he left office. Watch our Head of Housing @Ben_A_Hopkinson explain why that matters⬇️
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana won’t sit in the same green room.
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Labour run Wandsworth council rejected 110 new homes, of which 54 were for social rent (50%!). Currently sat with Mayor Sadiq Khan who refuses to decide on it before the next Mayoral election while Pennycook refuses to step in.
Spending half your salary on rent is simply unsustainable, yet is the reality for many across Wandsworth. Labour is committed to building the stable, affordable homes our communities desperately need. This isn't just about bricks and mortar - it's about the security of a home.
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Superb world leader banter here "It's impossible!" is exactly what you'd want a President of France to say...
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On her 100th birthday, Margaret Thatcher speaks from beyond the grave (via AI) about why you should read City AM
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Happy 100th birthday to the greatest. I wrote about my enduring love of pussy bow blouses (and free markets) 👇 https://t.co/NHE2AGMYlV
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