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    Henry Mance

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    Henry Mance is the FT's chief features writer. He writes features for the FT Weekend, and The Henry Mance Interview with leading figures, which appears every other Monday. He was previously a political correspondent and the FT's media correspondent. He is a past winner of Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards, and the author of the book How to Love Animals and Protect our Planet.

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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Whips by Cleo Watson — a Westminster ‘bodice-ripper’

      A Downing Street inspired satire by Boris Johnson’s former adviser pales in comparison with political reality

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Economist Daniel Chandler: ‘Shareholders have all the power. It doesn’t have to be that way.’

      The author of ‘Free and Equal’ makes the case for workplace democracy

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli: ‘We should have the freedom to choose how we die’

      The 90-year-old Swiss lawyer says assisted dying should be available to almost everyone

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      King Charles III
      Coronation of Charles III: an irresistible spectacle

      Seven decades in the making, the ceremony at Westminster Abbey was a splendid and strange ritual

    • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
      Travel
      Fritton Lake: part rewilding project, part holiday camp

      A growing collection of lakeside cabins in East Anglia makes the ideal base for a back-to-nature escape

    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Mayor Sadiq Khan: ‘You don’t make the UK more level by making London poorer’

      The former MP warns against ‘bashing’ the capital as he seeks a record third term

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      FT Magazine
      What does it mean to be a boy online in 2023?

      What lessons young men are learning from YouTube, TikTok and influencers like Andrew Tate

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

      The sociologist believes the US is stacked against the poor and decisions by the rich are to blame

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Life & Arts
      #GoWokeGoBroke: really?

      The Silicon Valley Bank collapse has reignited arguments over ‘woke capitalism’

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      Hunt passes pensioners on the way to the nursery

      Chancellor’s boost for childcare spending marks a revolution for a Tory party fixated on older voters

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’

      Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Matt Hancock
      The tragedy of Matt Hancock

      The UK’s Covid-era health secretary is not so much incompetent as annoying

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

      The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Yana Wernicke’s photographs show the unique companionship of animals

      A new book reminds us of the human capacity for connection with other species

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Boris Becker: ‘I’m still in the game. Just have to play better’

      The tennis star on his money, his marriages and what he learnt in prison

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’

      The economist argues that consultants are hobbling the state’s ability to perform the role of economic motor

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      UK society
      The Tate ruling is a victory against rubbernecking

      We can’t stop ourselves from filming celebrities or asking for selfies, so we cannot complain when people object

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’

      The professor who predicted that computers would change our lives demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      FT Weekend podcast30 min listen
      Surviving US healthcare. Plus: Prince Harry’s 'Spare'

      Claire Bushey explores the cost of US healthcare after her treatment for breast cancer. Then, Henry Mance reviews Prince Harry’s autobiography

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tyler Cowen: ‘Economists can’t predict the effects of new technologies. Surely that should humble us a bit?’

      The libertarian professor is on a mission to inform and educate so that people can make themselves more productive

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Spare by Prince Harry — complain and explain

      The memoir is arguably the most insightful royal book in a generation, yet still leaves readers with many questions about the monarchy unanswered

    • Sunday, 25 December, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      Year in a word: The Queue

      The line to see the Queen’s lying-in-state symbolised a nation in mourning

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Nouriel Roubini: ‘I hope I didn’t depress you too much’

      The famously gloomy economist has turned up the dial on dark predictions for 2023 and beyond, but is upbeat about technology and the meaning of life

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Harry and Meghan fail to deliver royal knockout in second half of Netflix series

      The couple’s terrible treatment by tabloid media is made clear but the Windsors escape without embarrassment

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest?

      The climate activists know their tactics make people angry — and they believe that’s a price worth paying

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