Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.

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…

Vaping’s appeal isn’t about the nicotine. It’s about the gadgets

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

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

This really isn’t how Robert Mugabe would run a referendum

16 April 2016 9:00 am

It is not what Robert Mugabe would do. Calm down. These are ‘spiv Robert Mugabe antics’, said the Tory backbencher…

Cameron and Mugabe: spot the difference

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

It is not what Robert Mugabe would do. Calm down. These are ‘spiv Robert Mugabe antics’, said the Tory backbencher…

I have seen the future, and it’s a racist, filthy-mouthed teenage robot

2 April 2016 9:00 am

‘I’m a nice person,’ said the robot. ‘I just hate everybody.’ Maybe you know the feeling. The robot in question…

I have seen the future, and it’s a racist, filthy-mouthed teenage robot

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

‘I’m a nice person,’ said the robot. ‘I just hate everybody.’ Maybe you know the feeling. The robot in question…

We’re swamped with nonsense gizmos and it’s all Steve Job’s fault

19 March 2016 9:00 am

I keep being told that the big hot technological gizmo of the moment is a box that sits in the…

We’re swamped with nonsense gizmos and it’s all Steve Jobs’s fault

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

I keep being told that the big hot technological gizmo of the moment is a box that sits in the…

Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Of course it’s vicious. It was always going to be. Sure, they’ve spent decades living peacefully side by side, but…

Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Of course it’s vicious. It was always going to be. Sure, they’ve spent decades living peacefully side by side, but…

South Africa’s rainbow nation promise lives on — in rich, caged enclaves

20 February 2016 9:00 am

I went back to see my old house in Cape Town last week, and they’d put a cage around it.…

South Africa’s promise now lives in a cage

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

I went back to see my old house in Cape Town last week, and they’d put a cage around it.…

This London mayoral race will feature something new: boredom

6 February 2016 9:00 am

London, 2012. It’s Olympic year, and east London is sprouting anew, and our city feels like the capital of the…

The London mayoral election will be a battle between whatsisface and whatsisname

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

London, 2012. It’s Olympic year, and east London is sprouting anew, and our city feels like the capital of the…

Corbynglish as a second language

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Corbynterpretation [n]: The inevitable process of debate, after Jeremy Corbyn is interviewed, over what he actually meant. Does the Labour…

Corbynglish as a second language: a political dictionary of terms

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

Corbynterpretation [n]: The inevitable process of debate, after Jeremy Corbyn is interviewed, over what he actually meant. Does the Labour…

Simon Danczuk and his spankingly splendid scandal

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Apparently, according to a variety of relatively reliable sources that include the man himself, the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon…

What a spankingly splendid scandal

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Apparently, according to a variety of relatively reliable sources that include the man himself, the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon…

If you believe the internet, I was Israel’s answer to Jason Bourne

12 December 2015 9:00 am

One of the strangest and, in a weird way, best things to have happened to me in the past year…

If you believe the internet, I was the Israeli army’s answer to Jason Bourne

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

One of the strangest and, in a weird way, best things to have happened to me in the past year…

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Get ready: these climate change talks might actually do something

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Prince of Wales is right, and I appreciate that this isn’t something people say very often. Now and again,…

(Photo: Getty)

Get ready: these climate change talks might actually do something

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

The Prince of Wales is right, and I appreciate that this isn’t something people say very often. Now and again,…

The answer for sensible moderate Labour folk? Leave

14 November 2015 9:00 am

What a useless shower the Labour party is right now. What a snivelling dance of fools. And I don’t just…