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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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11h

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

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 13h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

ENOUGH

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22h

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

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

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

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

That clears that up.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

Unclear that a leftwing PM would even have the support of the left alliance www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

France's Socialists declare they are 'ready to govern,' eyeing Bayrou's exit

The Socialists presented the budget plan of a potential left-wing government during a summer conference in the city of Blois. However, the initiative failed to win over their partners and was harshly ...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

Not sure that helping to make France seem ungovernable will end well for the left.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

How polarised is Britain?
Some thoughts: www.ft.com/content/c7e4...

How polarised is Britain?

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

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4d

In my feed, this video is next to Kemi Badenoch's promise to create a UK version of ICE.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

It is a joint statement from the Board of Deputies and the JLC. Its sad something like this needed to be said on the first Sabbath after Thursday but many people from every faith & none will be glad to see the clarity with which this longstanding position has been reiterated, and so can amplify it

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