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Henry Mance

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Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Aug 28

I wrote about the loss of excitement around veganism, which I think reflects a deeper shift: progressives have lost faith that they can change the world.

The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq

Why the vegans lost

[FREE TO READ] Veganism didn’t become less good for us or the planet, so what changed?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10h

"grocery shopping" - come back to the UK immediately

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10h

Great piece. The only thing I worry about is that cycling (esp ebike hires) replace bus/ metro journeys, not car trips, and thereby worsen the economics of public transport without changing streets much. But hopefully I am wrong @dlknowles.bsky.social

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10h

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 12h

Habeas Corpus - did he die in vain?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 12h

Trump appeared caught off guard when asked about suspending habeas corpus, responding, “Suspending who?”

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15h

And while China was surging ahead on solar power, Kemi Badenoch was pretending climate action doesn't really matter.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

feels like quite a lot for the *news* homepage?

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

No! www.ft.com/content/b680...

Don’t be tricked by ‘The Traitors’

The BBC reality show is topping the ratings — and has all the sophistication of monkeys throwing darts at a board

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

ENOUGH

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The entire population of Birmingham is pretty well integrated into my mentions

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

Let's imagine the water companies are non-profits. Who should pay for the cost of cleaning up wet wipes?
a) everyone who pays water bills
b) the people who produce and use wet wipes

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

No, that's not the issue here. Wet wipes have an environmental cost that the producers/ consumers simply pass on to the rest of society, because no one stops them.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

I don't think the FT article cited above exists either.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

Stop selling blooming wet wipes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

Toxic mass chiselled out of Feltham pipes amid campaign to stop people tipping harmful substances down drains

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

That clears that up.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

Thanks - yes, I didn't mean to suggest that the left was mostly to blame, just that I don't think these events are going to play to its advantage.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

The Tories will not return to government until they wear Union flag trousers to match the jacket. At the moment it's like they don't even love our country.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

In place of a speech by Victoria Atkins, the shadow Defra secretary, she is holding a “rally for the countryside” in the main exhibition hall. Her Union Jack jacket is back from the dry cleaners again.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 3d

It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

Protein craze means more Brazilian beef 😬 www.ft.com/content/5fad...

Billionaire beef baron says US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze

JBS’s Wesley Batista says strong US demand is pushing country towards imports despite Trump’s tariffs

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

a man is talking to a woman and saying `` so you 're telling me there 's a chance .

ALT: a man is talking to a woman and saying `` so you 're telling me there 's a chance .

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