Hugo Rifkind
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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Stranger Things review — the strangest thing is that this spooky series only gets better
Also reviewed: Lucy Worsley Investigates; Prehistoric Planet → Read More
My Week: Priti Patel*
Big cabinet meeting to discuss our approach to Ukraine. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Ben Wallace tell us about the sanctions and the guns. Then somebody asks how I’m getting on with refugees → Read More
Ozark, Netflix review — a show that never quite loses its cool, and that’s the problem
Also reviewed: Keeping Up With the Aristocrats; The Puppet Master → Read More
After Life review — it’s David Brent playing a ballad, but this time not even for laughs
After LifeNetflixRules of the GameBBC1Couples TherapyBBC2Ricky Gervais’s After Life is a conundrum. Viewers love it and critics can’t figure out why at all. Wha → Read More
Could Boris Johnson save Earth from an asteroid?
It’s an insane question but also a timely one, so let’s bite the bullet and ask it. If a massive asteroid was heading towards planet Earth, and humankind had six months to do something about it, is Boris Johnson the man you’d want in charge? Granted, you might not think it would matter terribly much → Read More
Will we go back to the office? Don’t bet on it
Looking back, I was probably jogging when it first clicked. My usual route takes me through the woods near our house, one of those semi-secret London wildnernesses linked to parks by graffiti-blasted → Read More
Stop whining about Brexit and save the UK
I spent the 2014 Scottish independence referendum looking for a Unionism that I recognised and only found it right at the very end. She was outside a polling station, she was young and had blue hair → Read More
It’s a Sin review — living young, free and under the shadow of Aids in the 1980s
It’s a Sin(Channel 4)Finding Alice(ITV)The Investigation(BBC Two)Lupin(Netflix)Writing, Russell T Davies once said in an interview, is a process of disappointment. I loved that, but I have looked → Read More
We can’t regulate our way out of online anarchy
Me and Donald Trump, we have a lot in common. For I, too, have been banned from Twitter, albeit not recently. It was a couple of years ago, after I’d had an argument with a white supremacist and told → Read More
What happened in 2020: from Megxit and Brexit to Covid and elections
Boris Johnson I’m sorry, but I just don’t remember that far back. Did anything important happen?Donald Trump Impeachment. Such an ugly word. And I was innocent! Bigly innocent. Has anybody ever gone → Read More
Tech giants aren’t selling, they’re buying you
What’s in it for them? This is the question. Last week, Google’s Deepmind announced a scientific breakthrough. As you’ll know, it had used artificial intelligence to . . . do something. Perhaps you → Read More
Topshop’s turmoil is a sign of changing times
Whenever I go into that big flagship Topshop in London, which admittedly I haven’t done for a while, I’m transported back to the late 1990s. Tony Blair was new, the Spice Girls weren’t old, and Oxford → Read More
We can’t take our eyes off Trump and Farage
If we ignore people, will they disappear? It’s not a new question. There are those who fervently believe, for example, that Brexit only happened because the BBC let Nigel Farage go on Question Time → Read More
All the mistakes you shouldn't make on holiday
Wish you weren’t here? For the undiscerning traveller, a trip abroad is all too often a one-way ticket to sunburn, boredom and booze-soaked regret, says GQ’s (very) rough guide → Read More
How to overcome your fear of public speaking
Hugo Rifkind on getting over your stage fright and embracing public speaking → Read More
Saga of the Sussexes is all rather pathetic
There’s just not enough there. This is royalty’s big problem. There is a swirling maelstrom of duty, and familial rifts, and hats, and writs, and gossip, and more hats, and medals that you aren’t sure → Read More
Quiz review — a drama about a coughing major at a time of a major cough
Quiz(ITV)Killing Eve(BBC One)Devs(BBC Two)‘All professions,” the playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, “are conspiracies against the laity.” It’s certainly true of the people who devise television → Read More
Apocalypse How? by Oliver Letwin review — it’s a complete disaster! And that’s just the book
A colleague of mine once argued that all opinion columns are either obvious or deranged. It has bothered me ever since, because I think it’s probably true. Congratulations, at any rate, to the eminent → Read More
Remoaners, rise up. We’re the fruitcakes now
“Who,” chortled Nigel Farage at the weekend, “are the fruitcakes and loonies now?” With the answer, I’m afraid, being sadly obvious. Still him. Wait! No! Wrong. Not him. Me.It was David Cameron → Read More
The Cameron Years review — his poshness is in another league
The Cameron YearsBBC One The Cameron InterviewITV Defending the GuiltyBBC iPlayer The strange thing about the two shows about David Cameron this week — BBC One’s The Cameron Years and ITV’s... → Read More