Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.

Russell Brand’s heart is in the right place – but it’s not the place he talks out of

2 May 2015 9:00 am

I write at a difficult time. The balls are in the air, but we know not where they will land.…

Russell Brand is the future, like it or not

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

I write at a difficult time. The balls are in the air, but we know not where they will land.…

Warning: you may be about to vote for more than one government

18 April 2015 9:00 am

For the last five years, I’ve been trying to get people interested in the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. No, don’t…

Warning: you may be about to vote for more than one government

16 April 2015 1:00 pm

For the last five years, I’ve been trying to get people interested in the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. No, don’t…

Why are so many men on diets? I blame feminists

4 April 2015 8:00 am

According to Jenni Russell, my colleague at the Times, David Cameron has lost 13lb since Christmas, mainly by giving up…

Why are so many men dieting? I blame feminism

2 April 2015 2:00 pm

According to Jenni Russell, my colleague at the Times, David Cameron has lost 13lb since Christmas, mainly by giving up…

The real threat to Britain (and it’s not the SNP)

21 March 2015 9:00 am

What a load of mendacious balls everybody talks about Scotland. It’s like a disease. It’s like, you know how they…

Why no one’s telling the truth about Scotland

19 March 2015 3:00 pm

What a load of mendacious balls everybody talks about Scotland. It’s like a disease. It’s like, you know how they…

It’s now clear: David Cameron was never a real moderniser

7 March 2015 9:00 am

I have a friend who was a Young Conservative. Just the one, I promise, and he’s grown out of it…

Did Cameron ever really want to be nice?

5 March 2015 3:00 pm

I have a friend who was a Young Conservative. Just the one, I promise, and he’s grown out of it…

How Alex Brooker made political interviews interesting again

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The other night on Channel 4, I watched the best political interview I’ve seen all year. It was with Nick…

With one push of a button, political interviews have become interesting again

5 February 2015 3:00 pm

The other night on Channel 4, I watched the best political interview I’ve seen all year. It was with Nick…

Maybe it’s a problem when all artists are like James Blunt. But it’s worse when Labour MPs are like Chris Bryant

24 January 2015 9:00 am

What should we do with James Blunt? This is what I have been asking myself. And I am not looking…

Let posh people run the arts – if it means they stop running the country

22 January 2015 3:00 pm

What should we do with James Blunt? This is what I have been asking myself. And I am not looking…

So the near collapse of A&Es around the country is all my fault?

10 January 2015 9:00 am

Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…

I guess I have to apologise for the state of the National Health Service

8 January 2015 3:00 pm

Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…

Twentysomethings: you won’t miss being poor. But you will miss not knowing what you’re doing

13 December 2014 9:00 am

What I miss most about being very young is the cluelessness. It’s enormously liberating, cluelessness. The boundaries of life are…

The good old days when I had no idea what I was doing

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

What I miss most about being very young is the cluelessness. It’s enormously liberating, cluelessness. The boundaries of life are…

Google vs governments - let the new battle for free speech begin

29 November 2014 9:00 am

Freedom of the press still matters when the presses are virtual

You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you

15 November 2014 9:00 am

As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…

You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…

I’ll take Jeremy Clarkson over a howling mob any day

1 November 2014 9:00 am

Perhaps it’s a glaring and personal flaw in my observational skills, but if somebody tried to insult me via a…

Six weeks after numberplategate, and Argentina’s still going on about it

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

Perhaps it’s a glaring and personal flaw in my observational skills, but if somebody tried to insult me via a…

Ukip is in the middle of the most cynical political repositioning ever

18 October 2014 9:00 am

I think I’ve cracked it. If you want to springboard your minor political party into the mainstream and take British…

Ukip has turned itself into a confidence trick

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_16_Oct_2014_v4.mp3 I think I’ve cracked it. If you want to springboard your minor political party into the mainstream and…