Henry Mance
@henrymance.ft.com
Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
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Henry Mance
@henrymance.ft.com
· Oct 31
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
www.ft.com
I sat down with perhaps the most level-headed man in rock music, Jon Bon Jovi, to talk about Trump, tennis and his return to touring after an atrophying vocal chord put his career at risk.
this week's Lunch with the FT: www.ft.com/content/25f2...
this week's Lunch with the FT: www.ft.com/content/25f2...
I once obtained a Nobel Peace prize medal by blackmail
January 16, 2026 at 9:32 AM
I once obtained a Nobel Peace prize medal by blackmail
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This dude is intense and correct
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1970s-style debt crisis update –
UK borrowing costs fall to lowest in more than a year
www.ft.com/content/0574...
UK borrowing costs fall to lowest in more than a year
www.ft.com/content/0574...
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
1970s-style debt crisis update –
UK borrowing costs fall to lowest in more than a year
www.ft.com/content/0574...
UK borrowing costs fall to lowest in more than a year
www.ft.com/content/0574...
Hopefully this won't distract the Washington Post editorial pages from their vital work championing free markets www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Hopefully this won't distract the Washington Post editorial pages from their vital work championing free markets www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
This is a fairly miserable assessment of the economics of vegan restaurants in New York
www.grubstreet.com/article/vega...
To cheer me up - what are people's favourite vegan/ veggie/ veg-friendly places in the UK?
www.grubstreet.com/article/vega...
To cheer me up - what are people's favourite vegan/ veggie/ veg-friendly places in the UK?
How Veganism Got Cooked
Plant-based eating was supposed to be the future. Then meat came roaring back.
www.grubstreet.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:38 AM
This is a fairly miserable assessment of the economics of vegan restaurants in New York
www.grubstreet.com/article/vega...
To cheer me up - what are people's favourite vegan/ veggie/ veg-friendly places in the UK?
www.grubstreet.com/article/vega...
To cheer me up - what are people's favourite vegan/ veggie/ veg-friendly places in the UK?
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
When I wrote about microplastics in November 2024, the scientists I spoke to were clear that research is at a frustratingly early stage - but also that microplastics are likely to be bad, so we should reduce our exposure www.ft.com/content/2433...
Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
When I wrote about microplastics in November 2024, the scientists I spoke to were clear that research is at a frustratingly early stage - but also that microplastics are likely to be bad, so we should reduce our exposure www.ft.com/content/2433...
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
... Minneapolis or Tehran?
January 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
... Minneapolis or Tehran?
This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
January 13, 2026 at 9:26 AM
This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
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HS2 is by far the most expensive railway, despite being built on relatively flat terrrain, more than any other rail project in the world as the total bill could surpass £100bn.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social ial and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social ial and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 AM
HS2 is by far the most expensive railway, despite being built on relatively flat terrrain, more than any other rail project in the world as the total bill could surpass £100bn.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social ial and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social ial and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
He was doing his best to do his job, and the fact that he called a woman a fucking bitch shortly after he killed her should absolutely not, in any way, cast any doubt on this.
January 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
He was doing his best to do his job, and the fact that he called a woman a fucking bitch shortly after he killed her should absolutely not, in any way, cast any doubt on this.
Undergraduate essay question: How can Reform be so good at social media yet so bad at social media?
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Undergraduate essay question: How can Reform be so good at social media yet so bad at social media?
I think this is basically right. If you want climate action, policy is much more important than personal purity.
But if you can reduce your own emissions, why not do that, and show others that it's perfectly compatible with living a happy life?
But if you can reduce your own emissions, why not do that, and show others that it's perfectly compatible with living a happy life?
January 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I think this is basically right. If you want climate action, policy is much more important than personal purity.
But if you can reduce your own emissions, why not do that, and show others that it's perfectly compatible with living a happy life?
But if you can reduce your own emissions, why not do that, and show others that it's perfectly compatible with living a happy life?
co-founder of successful polling company can read opinion polls
NEW: Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform.
Most senior member of the last Conservative govt yet to join the party.
Most senior member of the last Conservative govt yet to join the party.
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 AM
co-founder of successful polling company can read opinion polls
"Born into an illiterate Catalan peasant family, he started working in a Barcelona bicycle repair shop at the age of 13. [He] eventually went to university, but not before teaching his own parents to read and write."
A story of power, Opus Dei and Spain - by Barney Jopson www.ft.com/content/708b...
A story of power, Opus Dei and Spain - by Barney Jopson www.ft.com/content/708b...
The secretive powerbroker with a tight grip on corporate Spain
Isidro Fainé runs the Caixa Foundation but the 83-year-old’s age and dominance are causing disquiet
www.ft.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM
"Born into an illiterate Catalan peasant family, he started working in a Barcelona bicycle repair shop at the age of 13. [He] eventually went to university, but not before teaching his own parents to read and write."
A story of power, Opus Dei and Spain - by Barney Jopson www.ft.com/content/708b...
A story of power, Opus Dei and Spain - by Barney Jopson www.ft.com/content/708b...
the divide couldn't be any more obvious (except perhaps if you are the US Supreme Court)
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 AM
the divide couldn't be any more obvious (except perhaps if you are the US Supreme Court)
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This is actually horrifying and in no way should be allowed. As for the latter point; fucking hell.
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
This is actually horrifying and in no way should be allowed. As for the latter point; fucking hell.
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
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Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.
Minneapolis pastor says that he detained by ICE and then released, by an agent who said: "You're white, you won't be any fun anyway."
Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Minneapolis pastor says that he detained by ICE and then released, by an agent who said: "You're white, you won't be any fun anyway."
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Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times
January 10, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times
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Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
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That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right.
I've slowed the video down here.
I've slowed the video down here.
January 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right.
I've slowed the video down here.
I've slowed the video down here.