Henry Mance

When my editor suggested we interview someone about the government's plan to ban trail hunting of foxes, I wasn't quite sure where to go.

But it ended up with one of my favourite Lunches with the FT. In today's FT Weekend! www.ft.com/content/ab4d...

Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: ‘They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’ [FREE TO READ] The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege — and his numerous tattoos

I don't really know how to describe this, but it was great fun as.ft.com/r/8f9937cc-9...

Axel Springer poised to buy Telegraph in £500mn deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi

www.ft.com/content/e5cb...

unlikely convert to Islam just dropped

a man in a blue jacket dancing on a stage ALT: a man in a blue jacket dancing on a stage

incorrect answers only

Partner of Labour MP among three arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for China London’s Metropolitan Police said officers had searched addresses in London, Wales and East Kilbride

Partner of a Labour MP arrested on suspicion of spying for China www.ft.com/content/2efb...

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

That'll do, will inform the engraver

Fabrizio Romano reveals three Saudi Arabia targets this summer: all innocent civilians

No. Needs to start new war, not just continue existing one (Yemen).

too much propaganda for x dot com??

(just popped onto X to find out who had debased themselves this time. congratulations, Fabrizio!)

HERE WE GO! Fabrizio Romano to Saudi Arabia Mouthpieces, deal agreed for undisclosed fee. Subject to medical (on innocent civilians)

Thanks for reading! Great stuff.
(This article is by my great colleagues, Thomas Hale and Wang Xueqiao)

Good piece by Giles Coren on Nando's and others deciding that, no, they don't want chickens to live OK lives after all www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

China’s high-rise hog farms go international Livestock producers tout benefits of rearing pigs in multistorey buildings

In China, there are 26-storey towers - filled with hundreds of thousands of pigs. Now other countries are adopting the same type of "farming" 🤮 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

You won’t win this, Henry

it's a surgical strike

I think at least some special forces stuff is going to happen, mostly because they think it's super cool.

I am begging Americans to stop trying to refer to football teams with singular verbs

@generalboles.bsky.social or was he?!

He wasn't even in the show?

Did Britain need to strike the Chagos deal? [FREE TO READ] Viewed by some as a strategic necessity, the agreement has been complicated by shifting US priorities and political fragmentation at home

Why did Britain agree the Chagos deal? Why does it control the Chagos in the first place? Does the British public still long for empire?

I tried to answer those questions and a few more in this Weekend essay: as.ft.com/r/084eb53d-c...

www.ft.com/content/2fb3...

If you look at opinion polls, it's clear that the British public is not rabidly nostalgic for empire.

HOWEVER, the Chagos deal is raising the question: where do voters draw the line?
as.ft.com/r/095142a0-e...

Operation Epic F---

lucky there aren't any other possible endings for that phrase

inside the White House