Henry Mance | Financial Times

Friday, 27 November, 2020

They’re natural, healthy and the Romans used them to treat baldness. Henry Mance cracks into the nut bowl

Monday, 23 November, 2020

Has TV finally captured the reality of the City in BBC series Industry?

Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay reveal how their own experiences informed the show, from anxiety to sex and hangovers

Friday, 20 November, 2020

UK business & economy

Why didn’t I make millions selling PPE during the pandemic?

For the right kind of hustler, coronavirus has been a rich moneymaking scheme

Friday, 20 November, 2020

Scottish independence

Prospect of Brexit stokes fires of Scottish independence

Even if a UK-EU deal can be agreed, the severing of ties with Brussels is persuading unionists to switch sides

Friday, 13 November, 2020

UK Government

Dominic Cummings’ exit must end the discord at Downing Street

All administrations have schisms and the challenge for Boris Johnson is to lead in spite of them

Wednesday, 11 November, 2020

AnalysisUS foreign policy

Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?

For Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, relations with the US will become more challenging

Friday, 6 November, 2020

Amazon.com

A literary antidote to Amazon’s remorseless rise

Rather than competing with the ecommerce giant, Bookshop.org appeals to our better selves

Monday, 2 November, 2020

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson’s mistakes in the pandemic are depressingly familiar

From Brexit to Covid, the UK prime minister has insisted on only seeing what he wants to see

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Saturday, 31 October, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction

A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough’s warning for the natural world

A ‘witness statement’ from a lifetime of travels — and an urgent call to action

Friday, 30 October, 2020

Transport

Cyclists are not the bad guys

A revolution requires a few barricades and our cities need more bikes and fewer cars

Friday, 30 October, 2020

Lunch with the FT

Eddie Hearn: ‘Without me, people wouldn’t be talking about boxing’

The promoter on growing up in his father’s shadow and doing business with the Saudis

Friday, 23 October, 2020

Food & Beverage

Calling veggie burgers names is pointless

New EU rules and euphemisms won’t save the meat industry

Friday, 16 October, 2020

Political books

A glut of White House sagas traps the US in a political rut

The book industry finds itself profiting from national downfall, but it is time to move on from the Trump soap opera

Friday, 9 October, 2020

Renewable energy

Boris Johnson’s wind power plans are a lot of hot air

I fear PM’s proposal for UK to become Saudi Arabia of wind may be just bluster

Wednesday, 7 October, 2020

Special ReportWomen in Business

Home truths of lockdown

Remote working has heaped pressure on parents. Henry Mance and Susie Braun reveal who shouldered more of the burden

Friday, 2 October, 2020

Life & Arts

Can Spitting Image still pack a punch?

The irreverent 1980s show is back. Henry Mance on a remake for an age in which the boundaries between satire and politics have blurred

Friday, 25 September, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic

Masks make for awkward moments

Reticent Britons don’t know how to deal with those who don’t comply

Friday, 25 September, 2020

House & Home

How UK heritage is coming to terms with its links to slavery

Many of the country’s treasured historic properties were financed by colonialism and the slave trade

Thursday, 24 September, 2020

ReviewBiography and memoir

Diary of an MP’s Wife by Sasha Swire — a merciless memoir

A fun but ruthless look at life among the Cameron clique by the wife of former Tory minister Hugo Swire

Friday, 18 September, 2020

UK politics & policy

No-deal hype obscures the real threat of a bad Brexit

Failing to prepare for the most likely outcome of EU talks will damage the UK further

Friday, 18 September, 2020

Education

The future of the university in the age of Covid

As students start a term like no other, higher education is being reinvented for the post-pandemic world

Monday, 14 September, 2020

InterviewFilm

Thomas Piketty on going from data-crunching to documentary

The economist talks about transforming his economic opus ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ into a 100-minute film

Friday, 11 September, 2020

Brexit

FUK 2022: the cathartic festival Brexit Britain needs

Downing Street’s desperate attempt to distract us from the pandemic is looking increasingly threadbare

Friday, 4 September, 2020

Football

Tottenham Hotspur show ends in a no score bore

An Amazon documentary about the football club offers viewers nothing more than the first draft of hagiography

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