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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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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Does Rory Stewart know how to fix politics?

    The anti-Brexit former cabinet minister is an advocate of citizens’ assemblies and of giving money directly to the poor

  • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
    The Big Read
    The science of forecasting ever more extreme weather

    The UK Met Office’s predictions have become much more accurate, but some dramatic events remain elusive

    Chene weather station, a red advisory logo, two women out in torrential rain in the UK on August 2 and an Arctic weather satellite, set against the backdrop of a Met Office map of a storm
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    FT Weekend podcast19 min listen
    Wildfires are getting worse. Here's how we fight them now

    Henry Mance describes his experience training at a firefighting camp, and the impact that climate change is having on wildfires

  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    The UFO whistleblower and the search for extraterrestrial life

    After David Grusch’s testimony to the US Congress this week, is it OK to talk about aliens? Henry Mance looks at the evidence

    curious citizens scan the night sky
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Cait Hewitt: ‘I hope the era of aviation exceptionalism is over’

    The campaigner challenges the economic case for airport expansion in the UK and the industry’s sustainability ‘hype’

    Cait Hewitt, policy director at the Aviation Environment Federation
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Transport
    E-bikes should be exploding, just not literally

    I’m a believer in this mode of transport but the batteries that power some cycles need checking out

    A woman rides an e-bike in south London
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Extreme wildfires are here to stay. Can human beings really fight them?

    Fighting for survival, and hope, on a permanently hotter planet

    A fire fighter and truck are seen against a terrifying backdrop of giant orange flames as a bushfire rages in New South Wales, Australia.
  • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Economist Kate Barker: ‘To tackle inflation we should put taxes up for the better-off’

    Former Bank of England MPC member worries high interest rates will not be enough to solve the current crisis

  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Mustafa Nayyem of Ukraine’s reconstruction agency: ‘We have great goals, we will achieve them’

    Country’s head of restoration urges allies to provide immediate support to rebuild infrastructure even as war rages

    Mustafa Nayyem
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Lunch with the FT
    Nadine Dorries: ‘I’m actually smarter than these guys in No 10’

    The former UK cabinet minister on being blocked from the House of Lords, losing faith in Rishi Sunak — and Boris Johnson’s painting

  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Anti-monarchist Graham Smith: The British royals are ‘tax-funded Kardashians’

    Head of the campaign group Republic on why the monarchy should be abolished and the government’s protest laws revoked

    Graham Smith
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    ReviewFiction
    Whips by Cleo Watson — a Westminster ‘bodice-ripper’

    A Downing Street inspired satire by Boris Johnson’s former adviser pales in comparison with political reality

    The author walking in a street in Westminster near Downing Street
  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Economist Daniel Chandler: ‘Shareholders have all the power. It doesn’t have to be that way.’

    The author of ‘Free and Equal’ makes the case for workplace democracy

    Charlie Bibby portrait of Daniel Chandler
  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli: ‘We should have the freedom to choose how we die’

    The 90-year-old Swiss lawyer says assisted dying should be available to almost everyone

    Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas
  • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
    King Charles III
    Coronation of Charles III: an irresistible spectacle

    Seven decades in the making, the ceremony at Westminster Abbey was a splendid and strange ritual

  • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
    Travel
    Fritton Lake: part rewilding project, part holiday camp

    A growing collection of lakeside cabins in East Anglia makes the ideal base for a back-to-nature escape

    A person dives into a lake
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Mayor Sadiq Khan: ‘You don’t make the UK more level by making London poorer’

    The former MP warns against ‘bashing’ the capital as he seeks a record third term

  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    FT Magazine
    What does it mean to be a boy online in 2023?

    What lessons young men are learning from YouTube, TikTok and influencers like Andrew Tate

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

    The sociologist believes the US is stacked against the poor and decisions by the rich are to blame

    Matthew Desmond
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    #GoWokeGoBroke: really?

    The Silicon Valley Bank collapse has reignited arguments over ‘woke capitalism’

    Illustration of people’s legs under a table
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    Hunt passes pensioners on the way to the nursery

    Chancellor’s boost for childcare spending marks a revolution for a Tory party fixated on older voters

    Jeremy Hunt with tow children at a nursery
  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’

    Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing

    Anne Hidalgo
  • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
    Matt Hancock
    The tragedy of Matt Hancock

    The UK’s Covid-era health secretary is not so much incompetent as annoying

    Matt Hancock: it’s hard to get past his mistake of giving a hostile, untrustworthy journalist his WhatsApps
  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

    The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

    Tim Peake
  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Yana Wernicke’s photographs show the unique companionship of animals

    A new book reminds us of the human capacity for connection with other species

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