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Henry Mance is the FT's chief features writer. He writes features and interviews for the FT Weekend, as well as a weekly satirical column on politics and culture. He was previously a political correspondent and the FT's media correspondent.
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  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Why foreign holidays are so overrated

    England’s residents can venture abroad once again, but holidays overseas are not what they used to be

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Voters have been forgiving this time — but it won’t last

    Labour leader Keir Starmer needs a new plan after exiting the pandemic has been seen as more important than sleaze

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    City of London
    City living fits the bill for lovers of London

    The capital’s financial district plans to entice new residents by converting offices into homes

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    Boris Johnson
    The debriefing of Johnson’s all-too-brief briefing room

    The camera never lies but, in this UK administration, the person in front of it often has to

  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
    FT SeriesScotland’s future
    Inside Scotland’s pandemic: has it made independence more likely?

    As the country reopens, Nicola Sturgeon is riding high — but Covid has complicated her party’s push for self-governance

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Climate change
    Reclaim our cities from the SUV army

    These tanks of the urban road are environmentally harmful and entirely unnecessary

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    We love animals — so why do we treat them so badly?

    Around the world, humans are busily destroying habitats and inflicting misery on other creatures. It’s time for this to change

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Office life
    It’s mostly sociopaths who want to go back to the office

    This finding flows from extensive research conducted during lockdown from a sofa

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
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    High-flying economist on rethinking the social contract — and how she navigated the ‘sticky door’ syndrome in her career

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  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    British politics is morphing from delusion into sleaze

    Under cover of Covid, a new era of cross-party political venality is being built on Boris Johnson’s personality

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    How can we move beyond the nihilistic culture wars?

    Two books by Matthew d’Ancona and Andrew Doyle seek to broaden the debate on free speech and other quagmires — but end up in very different places

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Boris Johnson
    Greed is good, but not good enough

    Boris Johnson’s verbal pirouette on the merits of capitalism had the grace of a container ship turning in the Suez Canal

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    FT Magazine
    ‘My feeling when I was making the pictures was anger’

    Andy Sewell’s photos capture the food banks feeding the hungry during the coronavirus crisis

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    ReviewBooks
    The doctors’ story: a year on the Covid frontline

    Jim Down’s ‘Life Support’ and Peter Baldwin’s ‘Fighting the First Wave’ memorialise the unthinkable scenes of the past 12 months

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Elon Musk
    The fratboy folly of Tesla’s self-anointed Technoking

    Self important corporate-speak takes another turn for the worse with Elon Musk’s new job title

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
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  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    FT Magazine
    First Brexit, then Covid: can Eurostar get back on track?

    The great cross-Channel rail project is fighting for survival as passenger numbers plunge

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    Swishy Rishi sweeps in with goodies before honesty kicks in

    Why does the UK’s chancellor carry this stuff off so much more easily than his boss?

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Scottish National Party
    SNP feud reveals the lack of accountability in UK politics

    Accusations are flying between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon but no one is taking the blame

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    UK politics & policy
    Are UK politicians tone deaf when it comes to free speech?

    The appointment of a ‘champion’ for universities is undermined by ministers’ actions

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    Philanthropy
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    Social Media
    Get ready for your 15 seconds of viral fame

    Preparation is vital to getting the most out of online notoriety

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