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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, 5 July, 2024
    News in-depthRishi Sunak
    ‘Ineffectual’ and ‘snippy’: the rapid rise and stunning fall of Rishi Sunak

    The Icarus-like former PM took his party to what is projected to be its worst defeat in history

    Rishi Sunak
  • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
    Gareth Southgate
    With Gareth Southgate, we’ve gone from ‘Dear England’ to ‘dear me’

    Fans are demanding more but the manager still admirably refuses to blame anyone but himself

    England’s head coach Gareth Southgate gestures to fans
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    The Big Read
    The SNP loses its grip on Scottish politics

    With voters eager for change, polls suggest the party could lose a large number of its Westminster seats. But support for independence remains strong

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    UK politics
    Does Westminster have a betting problem?

    Election wagers raise lid on culture of political gambling within UK parliament

    A montage of the Houses of Parliament and a betting slip
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    After Baillie Gifford, who is ‘clean’ enough to fund the arts?

    The campaign against the asset manager has left festivals struggling to adapt to a new age of protest

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    News in-depthClimate change
    Green activists are knocking on doors in the UK election campaign

    New strategy by Greenpeace involves canvassing to establish climate change as leading electoral issue

    Local people mobilise to take action on climate change ahead of Kingswood by-election
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    An insider’s account of the AfD: ‘The wrong people stayed’

    As Germany’s far-right celebrates a strong performance in European parliament elections, a former leader argues the party has lost its way

  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Steven Chu: ‘Wall Street analysts are totally amoral’ on climate

    Barack Obama’s former energy secretary discusses the forces and technologies slowing the energy transition

    Steven Chu
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Farmer Minette Batters: ‘When are we going to take food seriously?’

    The former NFU president on feeding 70mn people in the face of climate change — and the genius of Jeremy Clarkson

    Illustration of a blonde woman, Minette Batters, sitting in front of a window
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Is there a middle way on children and smartphones? This researcher thinks so

    Social psychologist Sonia Livingstone says there are alternatives to banning the young from social media

    A portrait of Sonia Livingstone
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Travel
    A holiday from reality: Cunard’s Queen Anne sets sail

    Boasting 13 floors of floating luxury and 14 restaurants, the ship is sparklingly new — but is it already a relic of the days of high-carbon travel?

  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Kristi Noem and the truth about self-destruction

    The governor of South Dakota is not the only public figure to have disastrously misjudged popular opinion

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Retail sector32 min
    John Lewis: can kinder capitalism compete in ruthless retail? | FT Film

    The much-loved UK department store has struggled to adapt in a tough world of online retail

    A better way to do business?
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Economist Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Trump is what neoliberalism produces’

    Nobel laureate claims fall in inflation vindicates his position but global events challenge other views

  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Prime ministers’ legacies: Sunak, Truss and Brown

    Plus, is it right to allow MPs to vote freely on public health measures?

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Gordon Brown: ‘I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone’

    The former prime minister says Britain could have avoided austerity — but that politics has changed since the 1990s

    Gordon Brown
  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?

    Pessimists warn it could wipe out humanity. Optimists hail a medical revolution. Henry Mance meets the sceptics who argue that the technology is simply flawed

    A robot hand with six fingers reaching out to a human hand for a point of connection
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Historian Avi Shlaim: ‘I remain hopeful Israel will start to act rationally’

    The Oxford professor, born to a Jewish family in Baghdad, argues that Joe Biden can force change by threatening to slow military aid

    A man with grey, fuzzy hair sits in a chair
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    InterviewFilm
    Bill Nighy: ‘Not watching my performances is the only way to do it’

    The star of new movie ‘The Beautiful Game’ talks about arriving late to fame and the necessity of avoiding himself on screen

    Bill Nighy in glasses, black jacket and white shirt without tie
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    Is there a way out of Haiti’s nightmare?

    Mistakes of the past weigh heavily on a terrorised population

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    A Very Private School — Charles Spencer’s privileged but painful education

    A heartbreaking memoir of a childhood endured at a boarding school ‘without love’, where abuse was shockingly commonplace

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Merlin Entertainments PLC
    How Britain’s biggest aquarium chain keeps its animal records under wraps

    Sea Life is avoiding public scrutiny after bad publicity over high level of deaths at one centre

    Penguins at the Sea Life London Aquarium
  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Forecaster Peter Turchin: ‘The US is in a much more perilous state than Russia’

    Academic’s models predicted 2020 instability. Was it just luck?

    Peter Turchin
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Gender theorist Judith Butler: ‘What are they frightened of exactly?’

    The philosopher on what defines a woman, the scapegoating of trans people — and why it’s OK to stumble over pronouns

    A watercolour portrait of Judith Butler seated in a restaurant
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast21 min listen
    Netanyahu defies the west on Gaza

    Why is Israel's government so unwilling to listen to its closest allies?

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