Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind
Born	1977 (age 39–40) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Education	Loretto School, Musselburgh George Watson's College, Edinburgh Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Occupation	Journalist
Family	Sir Malcolm Rifkind (father) Edith Rifkind (mother)

Hugo Rifkind (born 1977) is a Scottish journalist who is a columnist for The Times and The Spectator.

Hugo Rifkind was born 1977 in Edinburgh, the son of Conservative Party politician, Malcolm and his wife Edith Rifkind.

Rifkind was educated at the independent Loretto School in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, the only Jewish pupil at the time. He also attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh before reading philosophy at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Rifkind began his career in 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 Glasgow Herald from 2002 to 2005. He joined The Times in 2005, taking over the gossip column ("People") from Andrew Pierce.

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. He also writes a fortnightly column for The Spectator and a monthly column for GQ. Additionally, he has appeared on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC London and BBC Radio 4's satirical quiz show The News Quiz. Throughout the general election of 2015, he presented Campaign Sidebar, a Saturday morning political review show on BBC Radio 4. His debut novel, Overexposure a satirical farce set in the London media world, was published in 2007. A compendium of his columns, My Week: The Secret Diaries Of Almost Everyone, was published in 2013.

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