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    Henry Mance

    Chief features writer

    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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    • 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
      InterviewInternet privacy
      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

    • 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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