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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