Henry Mance

Saturday, 21 March, 2026

Saturday, 14 March, 2026

The slow death of the English boarding school

Times, taxes and ideas about parenting are changing

Friday, 13 March, 2026

FT Magazine. The irrepressible Nigel Farage

Ten years after they first had lunch together, ‘the Brexit guy’ tells Henry Mance why the country needs his help once again

Friday, 6 March, 2026

Life & Arts

Lunch with the FT. Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: ‘They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’

The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege — and his numerous tattoos

Saturday, 28 February, 2026

The Weekend Essay

Did Britain need to strike the Chagos deal?

Viewed by some as a strategic necessity, the agreement has been complicated by shifting US priorities and political fragmentation at home

Saturday, 21 February, 2026

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The royal crisis of un-prince Andrew

By endorsing the independence of the police, his family is eager to show it will be held accountable

Henry Mance

Friday, 13 February, 2026

Jeremy Bowen

Lunch with the FT. BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen: ‘I do this to tell people what the hell is happening’

The veteran correspondent on the future of the Middle East, why impartiality matters — and his ‘long view’ on Britain’s national broadcaster

Friday, 13 February, 2026

Theatre

Yes Minister update I’m Sorry, Prime Minister shows that politics may be beyond a joke

Stage version of the beloved sitcom relies on jokes about social progress and cancel culture rather than Westminster machinations

Thursday, 5 February, 2026

Non-Fiction

Bonfire of the Murdochs — the rise of one of our age’s most powerful plutocrats

Gabriel Sherman’s rollercoaster account exposes the ruthless building of a ‘Succession’-like dynasty and media empire

Saturday, 24 January, 2026

Sudan

The last humanitarians

The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’

Thursday, 22 January, 2026

Donald Trump

From bored of peace to the Board of Peace

Forget the road to Damascus; Trump’s conversion has happened on the jet to Davos

Henry Mance

Monday, 19 January, 2026

The World 2026

How to speak Davosian — for beginners

The phrases you might hear at this year’s World Economic Forum . . . and what they really mean

Henry Mance

Sunday, 18 January, 2026

Football

VAR is making football fans more and more miserable

We are less tolerant of machine-related errors than human ones

Henry Mance

Saturday, 20 December, 2025

Life & Arts

Can ChatGPT help with a midlife crisis?

Millions of people have started using generative AI as a therapist. Henry Mance gives it a try

Saturday, 29 November, 2025

Life & Arts

Meet Portugal’s newest retirees: elephants

Without space to roam, the world’s biggest land animals do not thrive — so what should happen to those in Europe’s zoos? One sanctuary has an answer

Friday, 28 November, 2025

House & Home

The row at Rousham: who is protecting the English landscape?

Gardeners are decrying the potential destruction of historic landscapes if planning for a housing development — and a new town — is approved. Could it be more than nimbyism?

Wednesday, 26 November, 2025

UK Autumn Budget 2025

Reeves’ fiscal ‘smorgasbord’ was a dish best served early

Chancellor’s long-awaited second Budget upstaged by OBR’s premature publication of forecasts

Henry Mance

Saturday, 15 November, 2025

The Weekend Essay

Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?

As complaints over the editing of a Donald Trump speech topple another director-general, leading the broadcaster is once again looking like an impossible job

Tuesday, 11 November, 2025

Travel

The Netty: Oxford’s new micro-hotel — in a former public toilet

Key Notes | Hidden down a flight of steps on a traffic island, two underground suites offer only a ‘few subtle nods’ to the past

Friday, 31 October, 2025

Life & Arts

Lunch with the FT. Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’

The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump

Friday, 17 October, 2025

Life & Arts

Lunch with the FT. Chief Raoni: ‘The Amazon is our biggest chance to keep living on this Earth’

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ‘visions’

Saturday, 4 October, 2025

Life & Arts

How polarised is Britain?

Behind media perceptions of a sharpening political divide is a more complicated picture

Thursday, 2 October, 2025

Non-Fiction

Enshittification by Cory Doctorow — a manifesto for fixing the internet

The writer-activist argues that online platforms are getting worse, fast — and proposes radical regulation as the cure

Friday, 26 September, 2025

Music

How the Israeli-Palestinian Ripples Collective aims to ‘humanise the other side’

Blending folk music, storytelling and communal grieving, the group hopes to reach places that politics cannot

Thursday, 25 September, 2025

Television

Interview. Jack Thorne on The Hack and how ‘journalism lost the public’s trust’

The ‘Adolescence’ writer has dramatised the phone-hacking scandal for TV and is shocked at ‘how deep this thing went’