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Henry Mance

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Chief features writer, Financial Times

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The FT's pick of the best environment books so far this year: www.ft.com/content/22d2...

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"The tolerance for complexity in the social media age is less," says Baillie Gifford partner Nick Thomas, with heroic understatement.

@henrymance.bsky.social and Harriet Agnew ask: Who is 'clean' enough to fund the arts?

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Love what google is up to these days

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The US federal minimum wage is “the level it was 65 years ago, adjusted for inflation. It’s almost unbelievable.”

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Trump, neoliberalism, and why you'd rather live in Sweden than the US www.ft.com/content/282f...

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Analyst Barak Ravid tells CNN: “I spoke to an Israeli reserve officer, who was in the same unit as those soldiers who shot those hostages. I remember him telling me that the orders are basically, from the commanders on the ground, just shoot every man of fighting age” x.com/AC360/status...

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I'd start by asking why hardline Israeli/ western policy towards Hamas has failed to produce the desired results.

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"Abba Eban once said nations are capable of acting rationally when they’ve exhausted all the alternatives. I remain hopeful that, after Israel has exhausted all the military alternatives, it will start to act rationally."

My interview with historian Avi Shlaim: www.ft.com/content/fcf7...

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the Garrick Club has resigned after finding out that several of its members are part of the government

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I really feel that calling Michelle Donelan a Hamas supporter could be part of my job, but I'm not sure the FT's legal department would agree

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An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters reporter in Lebanon in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists and then "likely" opened fire on them with a heavy machine gun.

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only eight more months of this headline

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these two articles need to speak to each other

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25 out of 36 libraries closing. Jesus. This is a tragedy for Birmingham. But it's also a tragedy for the UK if, with all our prosperity, ingenuity and resources, we've mishandled things so badly that we can no longer afford the basic services which are the foundations of a civilised country.

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can't stop thinking about the film THE SETTLERS. harrowing yet brilliant taken on how indigenous people were driven from their land in Chile (a little more than a century ago). www.theguardian.com/film/2024/fe...

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Yes. The question I'm left with is: would more people use this tech if they knew about it / if it were a bit better? Or is there a creepiness barrier that will kill it for the foreseeable future?

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Biden a flawed candidate, but has real strengths too. Any thoughts on whether another Democrat would have been better placed to beat Trump?

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Even the Post Office’s IT system couldn’t turn the next election into a Tory win. If the government had any less puff, it would fall foul of its own ban on disposable vapes. www.ft.com/content/ce44...

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"The judge was scathing about the police's decision to impose unlawful restrictions on Greta Thunberg and other climate protesters. Put simply, he didn't see any need to interfere with the legitimate right of demonstrators to assemble to the extent they did." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

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That data cuts off in 2010! Italy was 1.25 in 2022; Finland was 1.32 in 2022 and estimated at 1.27 in 2023

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Does generous parental leave help young people have more children? If so, why are fertility rates in Finland almost as low as in Italy?

Here's my interview with demographer Anna Rotkirch about what we do and don't understand about Europe's slump in births www.ft.com/content/500c...

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I’m not a fan of banning political parties but there is something perverse if the German constitutional court, made mighty to prevent the return of far-right authoritarianism, can block the government from borrowing to pay for the green transition but can’t do anything about the AfD.

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Ah interesting framing! But I don't think this changes my view that it's not a good game: 1) when people are guessing wildly, there is no skill-based way to avoid suspicion, 2) even if you do somehow avoid suspicion, you can be murdered (indeed the traitors have more reason to murder you).

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This is an absolutely brutal assessment of UK climate policy progress from the official body the OEP

🟥Progress is "limited"
🟥Prospects of meeting targets "largely not on track"

🔊"emissions reduction rates must quadruple within eight years to meet targets"

www.theoep.org.uk/report/gover...

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