Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind     ( journalist)
Born	30 March 1977  Edinburgh
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	•  Loretto School •  George Watson's College •  Emmanuel College (Cambridge)
Parents	Malcolm Rifkind
UK journalist who wrote in November 2020 that Vaccine passports are only for fantasy land  Columnist In office 2005 - Present Employer The Times Preceded by Lars Borgnäs

Hugo James Rifkind is a British journalist who has been columnist for The Times since 2005, and also does some radio programs for Times Radio.

Background

Hugo Rifkind was born to Malcolm Rifkind, a UK politician with deep state connections.

Career

Rifkind began his career in corporate journalism as an editorial assistant for the show business website Peoplenews.com, before becoming a freelance writer for The Times and the Evening Standard, and a columnist for The Herald in Glasgow from 2002 to 2005.

In The Times, Rifkind writes a Tuesday opinion column, and a satirical diary ("My Week") in the style of a public figure in the news, and a television review column, both on Saturdays. From 2007 to 2017 he wrote a fortnightly column for The Spectator, striking a liberal, pro-European tone which ran against the magazine's conservative, Eurosceptic editorial line. Frequently his columns expressed concern about "anthropogenic global warming", a concept which The Spectator‍ '​s other writers often argue against.

In August 2014, Rifkind was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

Rifkind began presenting a programme on Saturday mornings on the digital radio station Times Radio in July 2020.

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