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    Henry Mance

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    Henry Mance is the FT's chief features writer. He writes features and interviews for the FT Weekend, as well as a weekly satirical column on politics and culture. He was previously a political correspondent and the FT's media correspondent.
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    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      How I won a starring role — OK, bit part — in HBO’s ‘Industry’

      Henry Mance on his contribution to the golden age of TV

    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Summer is over. But the UK is unprepared for the heatwaves to come

      40C marked a new era for a country known for its mild climate. How will it change Britain?

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      WhatsApp Inc
      UK online safety bill threatens security, WhatsApp chief warns

      Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says

    • Monday, 26 September, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Carlo Rovelli: ‘Science is not just about writing equations. It’s about reconceptualising the world’

      The physicist known for making complex ideas seem simple wants us to accept that certainty is often out of reach

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      UK Budget
      Kwarteng and Truss hit the pound running

      New chancellor turns his back on the Johnson years with tax cuts and borrowing

    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      Dignified and sombre: the grandeur at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was everywhere

      Congregants from across the world came not to show off but to submit themselves to the late monarch

    • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      The pilgrims who queued for hours for Queen and country

      Diverse and patient river of people creates spiritual interlude and sense of British togetherness

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      InterviewTelevision
      The makers of banking drama Industry on their sexed-up take on the City

      The second series of Konrad Kay and Mickey Down’s show promises Covid profiteering, New York-London rivalries and even more sleeping around

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Sabine Weyand: ‘The EU found out we are dependent on Russia. We can’t afford that’

      Europe’s director-general of trade has discovered that assertiveness pays — and that economic ties can mask vulnerabilities

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      Person in the News
      King Charles III, a life-long apprentice steps into the spotlight

      The new monarch may no longer be as outspoken on the subjects he has previously championed

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      ‘She’s all we’ve ever known’: UK reacts to life without its Queen

      Citizens and tourists from diverse backgrounds pay their respects as country enters period of national mourning

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      Queen Elizabeth II dies

      Britain in mourning, Charles is King

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      Royal family rushes to Queen’s side amid concerns for her health

      Britain’s longest-serving monarch under medical supervision at Scottish residence Balmoral

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Boris Johnson
      The farewell tour of an insubstantial Boris Johnson

      He has been a significant premier, but not really in the way he intended

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Adrian Hill: ‘This is the breakthrough tool — vaccines against malaria’

      Having helped create the AstraZeneca Covid-19 drug, the Oxford scientist has another urgent goal, to eliminate malaria through vaccination

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Michelle O’Neill: ‘What I won’t allow is the unravelling of the Good Friday Agreement’

      Northern Ireland’s would-be first minister is frustrated by political stalemate but has one consolation — her goal of Irish reunification is becoming more likely

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tom Tugendhat: ‘I will serve in whatever capacity I’m asked to serve’

      He was eliminated from the Tory leadership race, but the former soldier still wants to help British politics make a clean break with the Boris Johnson era

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Corinne Le Quéré: ‘Could we just adapt to climate change? The answer is no’

      The Canadian-born climate scientist stays cool as politicians fail to act, saying we have the solutions we need — we just have to use them

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Is Britain tiring of the culture wars?

      Brexit was supposed to have left the country bitterly divided. But Henry Mance finds identity battles losing their grip on the national conversation

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      Boris Johnson
      The entertainer who tried to defy political gravity

      UK prime minister once united people in amusement but ended up uniting them in contempt

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Michael Lewis: ‘The thing that really works for Trump is: the system’s rigged’

      One of the greatest chroniclers of America’s financial crisis takes aim at the former president — and at the US response to Covid

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Managing yourself
      We should have limited empathy for the Big Boss resignation

      Despite their best attempts to appear relatable, our overlords are not just like us

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterThe joy of tennis
      The A to Z of tennis

      From Alcaraz to Zverev, stopping by ‘junk balls’, temper tantrums and the wind en route: a lexicographical take on the game

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      The Henry Mance Interview
      Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘Putin has embarked on a route that is going to lead to his demise’

      Russia’s once-richest man, now one of its most prominent dissidents, believes regime change will happen — but only by force

    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      FT Weekend podcast30 min listen
      The rich interior lives of pigs

      Henry Mance on new scientific research on pigs. Plus, what a new style of skyscraper says about how our cities are designed

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