Henry Mance

Monday, 11 September, 2023

Thursday, 3 August, 2023

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

Friday, 28 July, 2023

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, 17 March, 2023

Life & Arts

#GoWokeGoBroke: really?

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

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

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

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

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

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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