Henry Mance

Friday, 3 February, 2023

Monday, 30 January, 2023

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

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

Thursday, 8 December, 2022

Upstream

Harry & Meghan part one — a Netflix appeal for both admiration and pity

The couple who broke away from the royal family are now talking about it at length — and the tone is hard to get right

Monday, 5 December, 2022

InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

Louise Richardson: ‘I do wish our students were more resilient about nasty remarks’

Before she steps down this month, the vice-chancellor of Oxford university talks about cancel culture, state schools and why universities should not be businesses

Monday, 21 November, 2022

InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

Stephen Diehl: Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’

The software engineer has denounced crypto assets as vehicles for pure speculation. But his views have made him a target of harassment — including death threats

Thursday, 17 November, 2022

Autumn Statement

Doctor Hunt tends to an economy in intensive care

New UK chancellor administers tax rises under anaesthetic

Friday, 11 November, 2022

Life & Arts

My week with Elon

Twitter is filled with stupidity and insight — its users now have an overlord rich in both

Monday, 7 November, 2022

InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

Wanjira Mathai: ‘We’re only at a 1.2C world. Can you imagine how much worse it will get?’

As the COP27 climate talks begin, the Kenyan environmentalist urges the west to win back the trust of developing countries

Friday, 4 November, 2022

UK energy

How I saved energy and stopped worrying about light switches

It would help if more of the choice were taken out of our hands by designing in efficiency

Friday, 28 October, 2022

Life & Arts

The Bear and the chefs shaking up kitchen culture

There has long been a cliché of a shouty chef. Henry Mance asks if there is a kinder way to run a restaurant

Monday, 24 October, 2022

UK politics & policy

An ambitious pragmatist returns to take the Tory leadership

Former chancellor is a rightwing Conservative who has relied on the centre and left of the party for his support

Monday, 24 October, 2022

InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

Steven Pinker: ‘Putin’s invasion won’t lead to a return to the age of warring civilisation’

The Harvard professor of psychology says he doesn’t sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational

Friday, 21 October, 2022

Corporate social responsibility

A rare victory in the war on corporate eco-guff

Greenwashing HSBC posters have fallen foul of advertising standards, but disingenuous business claims are everywhere

Thursday, 20 October, 2022

UK politics & policy

Liz Truss: Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister

From the beginning, her time as the country’s youngest PM since Robert Peel seemed ill-fated

Thursday, 20 October, 2022

InterviewFilm

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain on their hospital serial killer film ‘The Good Nurse’

The actors talk about making the truth-based Netflix drama, the US’s for-profit medical system and how they choose roles

Monday, 10 October, 2022

InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview

Jason Furman: ‘Everyone should wake up every morning figuring out how to get paid more’

The US economist argues that the Federal Reserve cannot ease up on inflation, despite global market jitters

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?

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