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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, 14 January, 2022
    Airlines
    If air travel has lost its charm, that’s no bad thing

    We should be relieved the pandemic is weaning people off flying, and use the pause to boost green aviation

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Accidental Gods — power, religion and the men made divine

    Anna Della Subin explores the strange stories of politicians and princes worshipped as deities

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

    Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    Novak Djokovic
    Novak Djokovic shows we can’t eliminate anti-vaxxers — but we can judge them

    As with racism and online abuse, sport reflects society

  • Friday, 31 December, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Royal insider Anne Glenconner: ‘I’m not frightened of anything’

    The former lady-in-waiting on the monarchy, Mick Jagger — and becoming a publishing sensation in her late eighties

  • Friday, 31 December, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    The Beatles remastered — for the Covid age

    Here’s what the Fab Four might have made of lockdowns, lateral flow tests and the rest

  • Friday, 24 December, 2021
    The Weekend Essay
    From the box to the bubble: what happened to festive TV?

    Henry Mance looks back at the golden age of Christmas event television — and considers what might take its place

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Best FT Weekend interviews of 2021
    My trip into the metaverse with Facebook defender-in-chief Nick Clegg

    The UK politician turned Meta exec on Mark Zuckerberg, the Haugen leaks and banning Trump

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Virtual and Augmented Reality8 min
    Nick Clegg's first interview in the metaverse

    Former deputy PM talks to FT's Henry Mance in avatar form about the role, influence and future of Meta, formerly Facebook

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  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    Transport
    Car users don’t have an inalienable right to occupy public space

    Quiet residential streets and clean air should not be treated as luxuries

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Omicron brings new frisson to festive party planning

    Which events promise to be so good that they are worth the infection risk?

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    Millennials
    Stop blaming millennials for all your failures

    Director Ridley Scott is wrong to castigate the under-40s fiddling with their phones for a film that flops

  • Monday, 22 November, 2021
    Travel
    My wild weekend in Suffolk

    A woodland ‘fire feast’ gives Henry Mance a taste of a very English kind of wilderness

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    Working from home
    Dear colleague, you won’t believe these new remote working rules

    As your managing director, I know many of you will find the ban on contact after hours unsettling

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Health
    We must stop trying to excel at sleep

    Some people are larks and others are owls, but none of us needs to stress about it

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    COP26
    If you want action on climate change, start with yourself

    It’s time to show world leaders in Glasgow the power of individual activism

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    InterviewTelevision
    ‘We’ve been screaming’: the makers of Dopesick on reframing the opioid crisis

    Writer Beth Macy and director Barry Levinson discuss taking on the Sacklers and victim-blaming in their mini-series

  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Test and disgrace: the UK’s bureaucratic Salt Bae moment

    The expensive failings of the coronavirus test and trace scheme should leave a bad taste in our mouths

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    UK Budget
    Fizzy Rishi Sunak cuts cost of champagne

    High-spending chancellor uncorks unlikely boost for lovers of sparkling wine

  • Friday, 22 October, 2021
    Technology sector
    Facebook’s demons will follow it into the metaverse

    A new name and a rebrand won’t fix a company that seems unable to learn from past mistakes

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Inside the John Lewis nightmare

    Millennials aren’t feeling it. Middle England is shopping around. Can the retailer shake itself up?

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Retail & Consumer industry
    The end of convenience might not be such a bad thing

    An economy less obsessed with choice and instant gratification would help us ride out the storms

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
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    The designer on her misconstrued aesthetic, ‘huge’ misinformation over the Downing Street refit — and why she loves John Lewis

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    AI algorithms can accurately predict rainfall but there are downsides to knowing everything

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Succession: a modern-day media saga
    ‘Succession’ and the perils of a family business

    From sibling squabbles to inheritance infighting, the HBO series has a rich history of familial strife on which to draw

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