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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. 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.
Email Henry Mance @henrymance  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Scientific research
    The ‘dire wolf’ dilemma

    There’s clever technology behind the de-extinction of species but it may have undesired consequences

    two pups that were genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    House & Home
    The eviction heavies stoking the fires of Spain’s property crisis

    As developers and private homeowners alike turn to desperate measures to remove squatters, a cohort of eviction specialists has risen to prominence — helping to transform the issue into a major political controversy

    A giant banner on the side of a building features the Desokupa logo, marking its 9th anniversary. It includes a cartoon of a man in an orange prison jumpsuit, a muscular man with tattoos in the background, and the phrase “¡Seguiremos limpiando las calles!”
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    38 Londres Street — in pursuit of Pinochet and a Nazi war criminal

    Philippe Sands tells the story of his part in attempts to extradite the Chilean dictator and trace his ties to an SS fugitive

    Four people stand at the iron fence of a grand, colonnaded mansion house on a grey autumn day. One of them waves a large Chilean flag; another is wearing a smaller flag on his or her back
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Anti-Americanism is a mug’s game

    Boycott Tesla if it makes you feel better — but the best critiques of Trump and Musk will come from the US itself

    Looking up to a huge balloon depicting a face with an open mouth, flying in a blue sky
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Travel
    Spain’s huge ghost hotel — and why they can’t knock it down

    The 20-storey El Algarrobico is a deserted monument to the struggle between environment and development

    A large curved building on a shore, with cranes behind
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Arts
    ‘Mussolini’ director Joe Wright: ‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’

    The ‘Atonement’ and ‘Darkest Hour’ filmmaker on his new TV series ‘Son of the Century’

    a man in a formal black suit sitting at a wooden desk with papers, while another person in casual attire and glasses gestures toward him
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    Where ‘woke’ went wrong 

    Seemingly irresistible just a few years ago, movements aimed at addressing systemic inequalities are now in retreat. Can they recover?

    A worker in a high-vis vest using a high-pressure host to clean up graffiti on a statue and the ornamental exterior of a building
  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The anti-Shein manifesto — my quest to buy better, buy less

    What if, instead of being surprised when an item survives a few years, we shopped only for things that will last?

    A dark-haired boy sits by a roadside kerb, fixing the back wheel of a bike with a spanner
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Religion
    Trump and the troublesome priest

    The president complained about the bishop’s mixing of religion and politics but in his version of Christianity the two are intertwined

    Illustration of Trump taking a peek through the empty space that shapes the head of a pastor. The pastor’s cloth has on one side a tick and on the other a cross
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Hope — Pope Francis’s surprising, joyful call for spiritual renewal

    This mould-breaking memoir leaves questions unanswered, but its humour and enthusiasm are hard to resist

    A man in white robes and skullcap sits on a chair on a podium. Behind him is a sculpture of people huddled together
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder

    For some climate scientists, global warming threatens Britain with a more unexpected scenario

    This image depicts a snow-covered urban setting with a modern, yet desolate atmosphere
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Nicola Sturgeon: ‘The independence movement has proven itself resilient’

    The former Scottish first minister on SNP scandals, falling out with Alex Salmond — and why pressure for a new referendum will return

    A woman with short blonde hair in a pale shirt with black collar sits in a restaurant with pale walls that sport antlers and candles
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The age of de-extinction: should we bring back the woolly mammoth?

    Species resurrection is nearing reality — it may also be distracting us from saving animals on the brink

    A colour illustration shows a woolly mammoth surrounded by images of a microscope, a petri dish and a DNA spiral
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterThe smartest new hotels in Paris
    Thanks for the memories: Paris’s sumptuous Maison Proust hotel

    Cocoon yourself in a sensory rush inspired by the Belle Époque life and times of Marcel P

    Looking through the pale-orange-wood doors of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir Suite at Maison Proust, towards a double bed behind which is a red and orange floral-patterned wall
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Travel
    Postcard from London: a Christmas sleepover at the zoo

    Staying overnight in the zoo’s wooden cabins, visitors can enjoy less hurried encounters with the animals — and wake to the sound of a lion’s growl

    A watercolour illustration of a family (a man and woman with two small children) wrapped up winter clothes standing in the snow at the zoo and looking into the giraffe enclosure
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    Jaguar’s rebrand has divided opinion. Is ‘Project Roar’ the road to success?

    Kana Inagaki and Henry Mance tell the inside story of an extraordinary corporate decision

    A close-up photo of a shiny metal jaguar cat, poised ready to pounce, on the bonnet of a black car
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Inside Maurice Saatchi’s mansion: ‘Look how perfect it all is. Even the log pile’

    The advertising maverick’s crenellated Sussex mansion strives for immortality — but are a new book ‘Orgasm’ and a bid for The Daily Telegraph really part of the plan?

    A person is sitting on a red upholstered chair. He has one leg crossed over the other. He’s wearing glasses with round frames, a light blue long-sleeve shirt, white pants, and black shoes
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad — a promise of new life amid war

    Simon Parkin tells the story of heroic botanists who put the safety of their seed bank ahead of their own during the Nazis’ siege

    A black-and-white photograph dated circa 1942 shows a ruined building surrounded by rubble and tree stumps
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    The Oscars 2025: all you need to know
    Jon M Chu, the ‘Wicked’ director uniting America

    The man behind the crowd-pleasing film adaptation of the musical has set a new box office record

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Jon M Chu
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Special ReportPlastics and Chemicals
    How harmful are microplastics to human health?

    Scientific research into how plastics affect the body is in its early days

    A close-up of someone examining a specimen dish under a microscope with extra lighting
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What the ‘manopause’ tells us about the gender gap 

    Do male midlife challenges bear comparison with those experienced by women?

    A middle-aged man hangs from the hands of a pink clock, while being buffeted by strong winds and rain until he is almost horizontal
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    Spain
    Slinging mud at King Felipe leaves no stain

    The Spanish monarch’s humiliation in flood-stricken Valencia helped to vent public anger — but there are better ways to solve a crisis

    A grey-bearded man in the middle of a huddle of other men, some in police uniform, is part-sheltered by a mud-splattered umbrella
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Travel
    Henry Mance: Is homeswapping the answer to overtourism?

    Home exchanges allow tourists to visit without squeezing locals out of the property market

    A cartoon of two families face to face on the doorstep of a house with a yellow front door. Both families have luggage and consist of a man and a woman and a boy and a girl. One family is dressed in summer clothes, the other in winter. One woman is handing a set of door keys to the other
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves shatters manifesto ‘matrix’ with blockbuster Budget

    Like Keanu, the chancellor uncovered a fake reality and valiantly resolved to defeat it

    Keanu Reeves, seen in this publicity handout photo, stars in the futuristic action thriller “The Matrix Reloaded”
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    University of Oxford
    I, too, would like to be chancellor of Oxford

    The race for the unpaid position is a reminder that it’s a bad idea to let just anyone apply for a job

    Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Chris Patten of Barnes
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