Hugo Rifkind

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Sunak sporting Adidas Sambas was seen as a new low but at this stage of the Tory death spiral he’s doing as well as anyone could

This account of the rise (and fall) of the social media platform says it was chaos from the start — thanks to its eccentric, ice-bathing founder Jack Dorsey

Also reviewed: Truelove; The Tourist

Thor the walrusI was briefly spotted in Britain. But I got out quickly.Prince Harry“So, my love,” said Meghan, who was wearing an intimidatingly white shirt while drinking a beetroot smoothie. “You

Hugo Rifkind: Unlike Diana Rigg, my mother had no interest in death — a right to die could have made her last years worse for all of us

Although I survived my Spartan education unscathed I see now how others endured extreme behaviour and buried it

In 1997, HBO rescued TV from blandness. But are streamers bringing boring back? Review by Hugo Rifkind

Those posters. I can’t stop thinking about them. They show Israelis who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, and they’ve been stuck on walls and lampposts across the world, and almost every time, it

Sleep easy, fans of Russell Brand, because nobody is ever going to stop him being deranged on the internet. As in, unless he finds his liberty curtailed for com

MondayThey told me there was a problem with Raac a few weeks ago.“Dominic Raac?” I said, because the name rang a bell.But no. It’s a type of crumbling concrete,

Naomi Klein, often mistaken for antivaxer Naomi Wolf, explores the mirror world of paranoid politics. By Hugo Rifkind

France is to ban disposable vapes, on the basis that they lead to smoking. I expect they usually don’t, but I also think that we should crack down on vapes too

Back in 1995, a man who was then called Michael Howerd got into a terrible fight with his bank over an overdraft charge. As matters escalated, he famously decid

She can’t sing, she can’t act and she has no particular talent — but, to his surprise, Hugo Rifkind is moved and disturbed by the heiress’s memoir

This week, the BBC began the gangster drama The Gold, about the Brink’s-Mat heist of 1983, when £26 million in bullion was lifted

Imagine Rishi Sunak and his new deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, taking a holiday together. Maybe on a barge? Along the canals they’d go, puttering, working toget

Years ago, when the teen vampire Twilight saga went supernova, a writer friend of mine was terribly cross. “Nobody told me,” I remember her saying, outraged, “t

Before long, it made me wonder if we’re simply done with revisiting this period in this way altogether. Roll on the 1990s revival, asap

In this box-set age, it really says something about the calibre of a show if it is prepared to make you wait. Do you really think, for example, that you would s