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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, 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

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Boris Becker: ‘I’m still in the game. Just have to play better’

    The tennis star on his money, his marriages and what he learnt in prison

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’

    The economist argues that consultants are hobbling the state’s ability to perform the role of economic motor

  • 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
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    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

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