Hugo Rifkind

Let’s shut out this angry, unrepresentative mob

10 November 2016 3:00 pm

If you’re aiming to refute the suggestion that you can’t comprehend the difference between mob rule and the rule of…

Free speech and the right not to bake a cake

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Let us consider the case of the Ashers family bakery in Belfast which, in 2014, refused to make a cake.…

Free speech and the right not to bake a cake

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

Let us consider the case of the Ashers family bakery in Belfast which, in 2014, refused to make a cake.…

Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years…

Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years…

We know who Theresa May is against. But who is she for?

1 October 2016 9:00 am

One of the professional drawbacks of coming from Scotland and then moving to London is that I don’t really know…

We know who Theresa May is against. But who is she for?

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

One of the professional drawbacks of coming from Scotland and then moving to London is that I don’t really know…

In a Birmingham jail, I found the point of Michael Gove

17 September 2016 9:00 am

I went to prison last week, in Birmingham. Early start, off on a train from Euston. It was my kids’…

In a Birmingham jail, I found the point of Michael Gove

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

I went to prison last week, in Birmingham. Early start, off on a train from Euston. It was my kids’…

Dear God, am I going to start liking Ed Balls?

3 September 2016 9:00 am

What the hell is going on with Ed Balls? Back in the horrible doldrums of the last Labour government, he…

Dear God, am I going to start liking Ed Balls?

1 September 2016 1:00 pm

What the hell is going on with Ed Balls? Back in the horrible doldrums of the last Labour government, he…

The best thing about Brexit? It’s not my fault

20 August 2016 9:00 am

Brexit Britain fills me with calm. Six weeks on, there’s no point pretending otherwise. Losing is far better than winning.…

The best thing about Brexit? It’s not my fault

18 August 2016 1:00 pm

Brexit Britain fills me with calm. Six weeks on, there’s no point pretending otherwise. Losing is far better than winning.…

Thank God for Sir Philip Green, the perfect modern hate figure

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Good old Sir Philip Green. Where would we be without him? So often, those national hate figures let you down.…

Thank God for Sir Philip Green, the perfect modern hate figure

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

Good old Sir Philip Green. Where would we be without him? So often, those national hate figures let you down.…

Hand over £25, or the centre-left gets it

23 July 2016 9:00 am

In order to become a ‘registered supporter’ of the Labour party, you first have to disclose whether you’re a member…

Hand over £25, or the centre-left gets it

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

In order to become a ‘registered supporter’ of the Labour party, you first have to disclose whether you’re a member…

A sad new British status symbol: the second passport in the bedside drawer

9 July 2016 9:00 am

I suppose I could probably get a Polish passport. Both of my maternal grandparents were Poles, displaced by war and…

A sad new British status symbol: the second passport in the bedside drawer

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

I suppose I could probably get a Polish passport. Both of my maternal grandparents were Poles, displaced by war and…

Jezza’s playing Glasto: is this a good idea?

25 June 2016 3:00 am

I do like a wet and muddy Glastonbury. Albeit, admittedly, not quite as much as I like a dry and…

Jezza’s playing Glasto: is this a good idea?

23 June 2016 2:00 am

I do like a wet and muddy Glastonbury. Albeit, admittedly, not quite as much as I like a dry and…

Help! I’ve started to care about politics

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Once upon a time, I didn’t really care about politics. Not viscerally. Growing up in a political family, I suppose,…

Lariam and my six months of madness

28 May 2016 9:00 am

I once went mad in Africa and it was no fun at all. I was snorkelling off the coast of…

My six months of madness

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

I once went mad in Africa and it was no fun at all. I was snorkelling off the coast of…

The vaping craze isn’t about nicotine. It’s about gadgets

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Probably you never visited the flats of middle-class student drug dealers in the 1990s, because crikey, neither did I, and…