Hugo Rifkind

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Full name: Hugo Rifkind

Area of interest: Politicians, celebrities and personalities

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Give me a day. I’ll sort out this tax avoidance - David Cameron is right to highlight tax at the G8 – but if we’re going to sound tough about it we’ve got to mean it - 18th June
Who’s watching Big Brother watching us? - Monitoring internet activity is like putting CCTV in my living room. Older people (above, say, 30) don’t get this - 11th June
Men macho and violent? Not round my way - There is no ‘hyper-masculinity’ crisis: violent crime has plummeted and homophobia is way uncool - 21st May
Syria’s mess is a result of intervening too much - Putin is not co-operating against Assad because he felt Western powers went too far in Libya - 7th May
To stop being cranks, UKIP needs a few wonks - The party is against the complexity of modern life. But you can’t govern a country with homespun ‘common sense’ - 30th April
Give up now. You’ll never tame the internet - Theresa May’s Bill is illiberal and pointless. She hasn’t got a hope when hackers and geeks are several steps ahead - 23rd April
Ed’s ignoring the elephant in the spare room - Labour is opposing the horrid practicalities of the ‘bedroom tax’ but is silent on the principle: who owes what to whom? - 2nd April
Without his private life, Boris Johnson has nothing - It’s the gaffes and faffs that make the London Mayor so fascinating. And that tells us a lot about this political era - 26th March
This charter is out to get you as much as us - Suddenly the published word has become the State’s business. That means your comments, your blogs, your tweets - 19th March
Bishops should preach morals, not make laws - I don’t mind the Church of England sounding off about the benefits cap. But I do mind them getting to vote on it - 12th March
Watch out, there’s a Bradley Manning about - Like the alleged WikiLeaks informer, we can all be spies – and our organisations will become easier to leak from - 5th March
Hollywood does indoctrinate us. By accident - Iranian critics of Argo have got it all wrong. US films give out a Western world view because it’s good box office - 26th February
My house is overpriced. How about yours? - Britain’s property market is terribly unequal, and taxing the winners won’t help. It’s time to burst the bubble - 19th February
Get a grip. We shouldn’t be baffled by a burger - Something has gone seriously wrong: making a ready meal should not be as complex as creating an iPhone - 12th February
Politicians have lost their nerve: vote yes/no - No referendums, then three all at once. They are less about democracy and more about panicky government - 29th January
‘Understanding’ doesn’t work. Killing does - We’ve given up on changing the world. The pragmatic (and brutal) approach to beating terrorism is the only way - 22nd January
Just before we leave Savile the bogeyman . . . - . . . we should be grateful that he couldn’t flourish today, but worried by our enthusiasm to go on witchhunts - 15th January
Don’t tax me just to give me my money back - Universal benefits are supposed to compensate those of us who pay into the system. Who are they kidding? - 8th January

Articles: 2012

I have a horrid vision of Scotland’s future - Ulster Unionists cling to an England that doesn’t care if they stay or go. I fear the same fate north of the Border - 18th December
You and I can’t fix the Starbucks problem - Don’t tell tax-avoiding corporations to ‘do the right thing’. Tell them what to pay and make them pay it - 4th December
My article, your tweet. What’s the difference? - The press Leveson wants to regulate soon won’t exist on paper. By ignoring the web, his proposals are out of date - 30th November
All those Eurocrats. You couldn’t make ’em up - They number 3,000 and even the most famous is best known for being obscure. What exactly are they for? - 27th November
Israel good? Tick. Israel bad? Tick. It’s tricky - . . . And for us Jews it really doesn’t help that anti-Semitism arrives late in the discussion to add in its bigotry - 20th November
You don’t trust us – and maybe you never will - The BBC won’t regain our faith by appointing new bosses. And a quango can’t improve the reputation of the press - 13th November
Should we flog weapons to flogging nations? - Saudi Arabia is still such an oppressive country that Cameron’s arms-dealing trip ought to make him feel queasy - 6th November
To stay at the top, you have to know nothing - The geometry of every scandal is the same — who knew what, not who did what. Ignorance is the only way to survive - 30th October
MPs and trains: what first-class nonsense - We have become a shrill and destructive nation when we start with the presumption that all politicians are cheats - 22nd October
For a genius drugs policy, look to California - Legalisation is the only direction. But beware the Dutch model, which creates an economy ripe for organised crime - 16th October
We’re not going to Hell in a handcart after all - Abortion, gay marriage, child abuse ... Are our moral foundations crumbling? No, godless liberalism may just work - 9th October
As a bona fide geek, Ed, your time has come - The Labour leader is no longer such a ludicrous prospect as prime minister. The humble superbrain has its appeal - 2nd October
Police v Mitchell: this looks a lot like revenge - Regardless of who is right about ‘plebs’, just look at the track record of the police and you see the need for reform - 25th September
Political maturity will stop the raging nutter - The Islamic film riots aren’t about freedom of speech, but about the rule of law. And that starts with democracy - 18th September
Is the TUC sure it’s learnt the Olympic lesson? - Corporate sponsors everywhere, all work done by volunteers in purple cagoules: this was hardly a workers’ paradise - 11th September
Let’s make sure Assange stays in the wrong - The WikiLeaks founder is not a victim of Western oppression. And only Britain’s overreaction can make him one - 21st August
What is it to be British? Now we know . . . - Some lean to the Queen and Army, others to Mo, Minis and multiculturalism. The Games reconciled the two - 14th August
Even I’ve got hooked on the goodwill Games - Though tone deaf to sport, I’ve caught the shift in the national mood. Don’t let it evaporate at the closing ceremony - 7th August
Is Romney a hawk or just a tactless weirdo? - Obama asked America’s foes to unclench their fists. His rival has shown a middle finger to the Middle East - 31st July
31,347 US gun deaths a year. That’s freedom - Self-defence is not the priority. Rather it’s about individual (perhaps selfish) rights drowning out everything else - 24th July
We hate ’em but need ’em. Grill ’em properly - Good bankers dishing the dirt on bad bankers, Leveson-style, is the best way of cleaning up the system - 10th July
In or out of what? That’s the real question - On Europe, Cameron disagrees with Mandelson because he agrees with him. Just what are they all on about? - 4th July
If you live on welfare, should your life be nice? - The big problem with the benefits debate is that neither Left nor Right dares to say what it really thinks - 27th June
It’s the clunking fist school of conspiracy - Tony Blair described the media as beasts out of control. He was right. But they have no sinister underlying motive - 13th June
We’ve opened Pandora’s Horse. It’s full of idiots - The unspoken pact to ignore economics is over. But now we’re paying attention, we see how little the experts know - 18th May
That thumbscrew is a spanner in the works - None of the rational arguments against torture holds up. Except one: if you tolerate it, your system is wrecked - 11th May
All mouth and no trousers, this Government - Borders, student fees or fighter jets . . . the coalition loves to dream up ideas but lacks the will to follow through - 4th May
Stand up, Tories, and embrace your poshness - Being ‘privileged’ always seems to mean ‘out of touch’. Far from it: it often means you have wider experience - 27th April
If you play with fire on Twitter, expect to be burnt - Bang these cavemen up and they’ll learn to respect the law - 24th April
We need to talk about the ridiculous Breivik - Yes, we must respect the bereaved but the horror of what he did must not confer on him the seriousness he craves - 20th April
Facebook may just be a box that goes ‘bing’ - What if the urge to share everything online is just a fad? Then Mark Zuckerberg can kiss his $100bn goodbye - 13th April
My tax-free bike isn’t taking you for a ride . . . - . . . but some quite lawful tax avoidance is. We have to be clear about the difference between legality and morality - 30th March
I’m not rich. I just have more cash than most - If this was a Budget for the super-wealthy why won’t I get anything from it? I’m in the top 9 per cent - 23rd March
It isn’t anti-capitalist to be anti-Goldman - The angry executive who walked out is no hero for the Occupy movement. He’s not even remotely on their side - 16th March
‘Eeeeuw’ is no argument against gay marriage - Neither is saying ‘God doesn’t like it’. In fact when you think carefully, there is no plausible case at all - 9th March
When it plays ethics, sport must raise its game - Whether it’s the Olympics or Formula One, big sport will flog the gloss of respectability to just about anyone - 2nd March

Articles: 2011

You watched that trial. Are you ashamed? - We have all, collectively, acted inexcusably by intruding into the personal grief of the Kercher family - 7th October
Capitalism: not such a capital idea any more - The party leaders – in fact most of us – simply don’t trust big business like we used to - 30th September
We all want peace ... just shut up about it - The Israeli-Palestinian impasse must be resolved by the two sides (not everyone else) talking - 23rd September
Squatters have a point. But it’s not a fair one - Property laws protect the poor, not the rich. Try explaining that to a generation who thinks it will never own stuff - 9th September
The nasty party is back. Thank goodness - Much of the Tories’ appeal was based on righteous anger. So why don’t they start directing it at the bankers? - 2nd September
Join the cult if you like. Apple makes me cringe - The products are excellent. They work. They look good. People love them unconditionally. That’s my problem - 26th August
We live on these streets. But they’re not ours - The reason we are so surprised by the broomstick army is that we have lost our bond with the places we live in - 12th August
Is Twitter any more than #talkingtoourselves? - The great democracy of the internet is changing the world. But it can lock us into ghettoes - 5th August
You can’t regulate friends, even in high places - It’s quite normal for the Prime Minister to have powerful friends, and quite abnormal to make him declare them - 23rd July
In an era of mistrust even Assange is plausible - I’m the last man who doesn’t think they’re all scum and out to get us. But it’s getting harder to laugh at those who do - 15th July
There’s no Plan B for Afghanistan either - Why do soldiers still have to die if the end of the war is going to happen to a timetable? - 8th July
Please don’t call her crazy. Even when she is - All powerful women get written off as mad. And that leaves us nowhere to go when we face a Michele Bachmann - 1st July
If you don’t know, ask an expert. Wait, perhaps not - We’ll never solve the NHS conundrum, or the banking one, if we listen to them - 17th June
It’s only a man’s pants. But you want to look - The State doesn’t want to peer into everyone’s private lives, we do. It’s time we admitted it - 10th June
We care about the climate. Just not enough - When Sarah Palin says ‘emissions’ you know the argument is over. But who will do anything practical about it? - 3rd June
Oprah was behind that barbecue at No 10 - For years US politicians have been comfortable on the TV sofa – but ours still struggle to do the regular-guy act - 27th May
Yes, rape is rape. But not all rapes are equal - Mr Clarke blundered horribly but it’s helpful, as he did, to think in shades of grey - 20th May
Independence is the last thing SNP voters want - Mavericks often win devolved elections. The Scots know perfectly well that Holyrood is not Westminster - 13th May
Obama is right not to put us in the picture - Photographs of a dead bin Laden will come out anyway. But it does matter how they emerge - 6th May
Don’t blame outsiders. Look closer to home - Honest discussion about immigration is not about culture but about who finds the jobs - 15th April
We’re being nudged. Into a dog’s breakfast - There’s a fatal flaw in the Government’s approach to tuition fees — and that flaw threatens to sink all its flagship policies - 8th April
We’re drowning in a sea of petty arguments - The Poet Laureate call cuts in grants to a poetry club ‘disgusting’. Where are the grown-ups? - 1st April
Wishful thinking will never change the world - William Hague says Arab tyrants are getting the message. But he has no right to be so sure - 25th March
It’s Nick’s party and there’s lots to cry about - We all know the Lib Dems are having a miserable time. So why don’t they stop moping around and do something? - 18th March
Keep that bull out of the Libya china shop - There is no case – yet – for a no-fly zone, nor for any form of liberal interventionism. It is yesterday’s game - 4th March
Politicians need protesters to egg them on - There’s no shame in changing a policy voters don’t like. The alternative is very nasty indeed - 25th February
£3,500 for work experience? Just the ticket - This middle-class conspiracy may be appalling, but we’re all in it together, so it will carry on - 18th February
No smoke without fire when Obama gives up - Whether it’s cigarettes or babies, world leaders are affected by their personal lives. We should know about them - 11th February
Only armchair revolutionaries call this peace - Maybe Julian Assange does deserve a prize. But not the one he’s been nominated for - 4th February
A Tory-led government is like a bike led by, er, me - 25th January
Even the leakers were wrong about WikiLeaks - 18th January
You want a TV career, David? Time to get real - I wonder if Mr Miliband knows what he’s letting himself in for - 11th January
Why we’ll be rubbish at building the Big Society - 4th January

Articles: 2010

Schoolboys, be glad that Ulysses didn’t go to Wales - Unlike Mohammed Bellazrak, 72, who earned a mention in yesterday’s newspaper for his epic trip home to Wiltshire from Gatwick airport, I have never got so lost on a simple car journey that I have ended up spending three days in my car - 28th December
Can’t wait, won’t wait: the curse of modern life - Travel gone wrong always has a post-apocalyptic air - 21st December
Remember that ‘nasty party’ label? It’s back - 14th December
A policeman and a waiter – beyond the call of duty - 7th December
Come on, it’s not that bad sarf of the river - Is Brixton really as bad as crime-ridden South Africa? - 23rd November
The speeches that might be made at the royal wedding - ‘But bruv! Where was I? Kate? Tidy piece, my man, tidy piece. I’m thrilled. Don’t mean to go on about it, but good pull’ - 20th November
Does stopping old ladies help security? Search me - 9th November
Let’s all get apoplectic about deer, rodents etc - There is a whole world of voices out there, all just itching to be shrill - 2nd November
Remind me. It’s the red one I mustn’t press, right? - Ever lost something really important, on which the lives of billions depend? - 26th October
There are worse things than dressing up as a Nazi - Exactly why such things are supposed to be so damaging and embarrassing, nobody seems quite sure - 12th October
Climate film doesn’t see which way the wind blows - There are, I have often thought, three logically possible reasons why people who believe climate change to be a myth do so. They are either very clever, or very stupid or talking about something else - 5th October
Big Brother? We’ll miss him when he’s gone - CCTV surveillance just doesn’t seem to bother us any more - 28th September
More custard with your grenade launcher? - It seems you can be to careful - 21st September
Is it really rational for atheists to be so nasty? - You know what bothers me about the most passionate advocates of atheism? Why they aren’t nicer - 14th September
What’s my guilty secret? You’ll have to tell me - I have never sold drugs, committed adultery or put a cat in a bin - 7th September
If Obama is one, then Muslim can’t mean Muslim - Notebook: here was a poll the other week showing that 18 per cent of Americans think that Barack Obama is a Muslim. I didn’t understand it at all - 31st August
The bomb? I wouldn’t trust Iran with scissors - Notebook: unavoidably, when one writes about comments made in a language one doesn’t speak, one runs the risk of missing a vital nuance - 24th August
Superheroes ain’t what they used to be. Hurrah - Notebook: But that’s because they were freaks and losers - 17th August
Give us all a vote in the Big Brother House of Lords - It’s the only way we will get interested in the most boring issue of our time - 3rd August
If you publish sometimes you deserve to be damned - Transparency doesn’t always help you to see the full story - 27th July
First rule of schooling: get a pile (or pile of dosh) - Getting your child privately educated relies on one of two essentials - 13th July
Ra Ra for the Rasputin of radio. Not that we listen to it - As a man in his thirties who has been wearing roughly the same trainers for the past 17 years, I’m obviously pleased that the BBC has decided not to scrap 6 Music - 6th July
Only Brits have cold contempt for aircon - Notebook - 29th June
It’s not that I don’t care about football. I just don’t care enough - Notebook - 15th June
Why Britain is singing a different song for Europe - It’s not that we are bad, it’s just a cunning plan to make them hate us less - 1st June
This is a poor way to draw attention to intolerance - Something about these images of the Prophet makes me very uneasy - 25th May
Your secret’s safe with me — unless you own Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg has exposed the stark difference between public and private - 18th May
Know nothing? Go work in the City - If you’ve graduated in Anglo-Saxon and Norse, you’re qualified to sell tin mines - 11th May
That Brit doesn’t know how to binge-drink - A financial adviser has disgraced us all in Las Vegas - 4th May
Hugo-Times (whoever he is) says this is 5-star writing - Now I know the secret, I can get top rankings for all my work - 27th April
You think the ash cloud’s a panic? Here’s a dusty answer - The volcano cloud is attracting the same sceptics who doubt climate change - 21st April
You think the ash cloud’s a panic? Here’s a dusty answer - The volcano cloud is attracting the same sceptics who doubt climate change - 20th April
If a gag is in bad taste, it’s our fault for laughing - What signals do we send out that make comedians think this might be OK? - 13th April
An amazing Afrikaner – wrong about everything - Terre’Blanche was worse than a segregationalist. He was a supremacist - 6th April
Can Gordon Brown handle the real world, honestly? - Supermarkets, traffic wardens, house keys... the Prime Minister will struggle with everyday life after No 10 - 19th March
Eliza Manningham-Buller didn’t know about Barney? - She should have watched 24 to learn about torture - 12th March
Bob Geldof’s a pain: but Live Aid changed everything - Why is it that everyone hates an aid worker? - 5th March
I’m not crying for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner - This idea that Argentina owns the Falklands is bonkers - 26th February
Mossad assassin was dressed to kill - I have a theory about Gail Folliard, the supposed killer of the Hamas boss ... -19th February
Forbidden city that looks just like any other - West Bank Notebook - 12th February
Atheists are more annoying than believers - The Cherie Blair case makes me dislike the National Secular Society - 5th Februry
iPad? It’s an iThing leading to iFatigue - When you think you’ve got all the toys you want, along comes another one - 29th January
What is it about Yanks and their trucks? - America leaves me completely baffled. It might just as well be Azerbaijan or Peru - 22nd January
An Israeli diplomat from the school of Lord Sugar - Gossip should supposedly not affect our opinion of public figures. Actually it can be very helpful - 15th January
Teenage folly still takes my breath away - It isn’t just boredom that drives youngsters to get risky kicks - 8th January
How to avoid next year’s hangover - How was last night? Good? Indifferent? Positively awful? If the last, I’m betting you are English, and were in England - 1st January

Articles: 2009

Has al-Megrahi paid his council tax? - This is not a job for East Renfrewshire Council - 18th December
Rooms need a view. Hoteliers don’t - There will always be awful people. But there’s no big lesson in that - 11th December
Nowhere else to go? Why not try Iran? - Perhaps they held the yacht crew because they don’t have enough real tourists to lovebomb - 4th December
Memo to the poor: go forth and don’t multiply - Sometimes don’t you just marvel at our gall? - 20th November
Protesting against Charles? Bonkers - Surely the good people of Quebec must have something better to do - 13th November
Dolly Parton: a living sculpture - Plastic surgery looks good when it’s not trying to be real - 6th November
Biscuits: a snap decision is not that easy - HobNob or cookie? Can anyone really name their favourite? - 23rd October
We’ve all hitched a ride on Adams’s coat-tails - Douglas Adams was a comedy genius and the first and best commentator - 16th October
I refuse to freeze with the green Nimbys - The Kingsnorth protesters think they’ve won a victory. They haven’t - 9th October
We are bullying Gordon Brown to mental collapse - We may regret our attitude to the Prime Minister once he’s gone - 2nd October
Gaddafi’s strange version of big tent politics - Finding somewhere in Manhattan for Muammar Gaddafi to pitch his enormous and egomaniacal Beduin tent can’t be fun - 25th September
Clueless a very long way from Gaza - Who gives a damn what the Fire Brigades Union thinks about it? - 18th September
A US boycott would be good for Scotland - Americans can take their tourist dollars; what the country really needs is its freeeeedom, argues a Scottish-born writer - 15th September
Are failed terrorists a laughing matter? - British bombers aren't in a stricken war zone - 11th September
Gordon Brown – is he secretly normal? - There’s no doubt where we stand on Col Gaddafi. But the Prime Minister... - 4th September
Why the camp? What’s the real intent? - The climate change protesters haven’t thought this one through - 28th August
Someone find me a city to fantasise about - No one will wax lyrical about catching the bus to Southampton or Swansea - 21st August
Hugo has my views on golf down to a tee - A war on the bourgeois sport? That’s my kind of president - 14th August
It’s not funny, Brüno, if the joke’s on you - Is it me or is Sacha Baron Cohen disgustingly homophobic? - 31st July
How did Old Dave turn into New Dave? - Look at the Bullingdon Club picture. And look at him today. How did it happen? - 24th July
Help! 38,000ft up and nowhere to go - I had something pretty close to a panic attack when the doors closed on the outward flight - 17th July
Highway robbery. And that’s official - They’re the biggest, meanest bunch of organised crooks from WC1 to N3. They go by the moniker of 'Camden Council' - 3rd July
Oxygen tanks and lipstick: perfect - If our MPs are going to let us down, they could at least do it with a bit of style - 19th June
We are killing the world a calorie at a time - Our biscuits are sweeping the world - but are they being eaten properly? - 12th June 2009
Where'd you get them peepers? - Look at an MP's smile. Now cover the mouth. Scary - 5th June
How to make a monkey out of an activist - It's easy to refute the arguments of the animal rights lobby - 29th May
Here's my short answer to your 'invite' - My blood is boiling. How could he say that? - 22nd May
Gordon misses the cash and the point - The Prime Minister's crazy plan to walk us home - 15th May
We Brits don't do free speech, thank goodness - We should be proud that we won't let this bigoted “shock jock” into the country - 8th May
Some diseases are more equal than others - Did Orwell realise that swine flu came to Animal Farm? - 1st May
A bit of police violence worth watching - A new TV programme that's like a music video with punching - 24th April
Bagpuss, another fat cat to worry about - The Prime Minister's handwriting brings untold problems - 17th April
A bit odd, those bunnies with their eggs - I'm confused. I feel there is some biological problem here - 10th April
Life is lovely when you're wearing a tiara - Let's send Miss Universe to more awful places in the world - 3rd April
Giving Churchill a mohican's no good - The anti-capitalists owe us an apology. If they really saw it coming, they might have told us - 27th March
Is it so hard to become a Pope? - The people at the top of religions don't seem, well, very competent - 20th March
I'm angry - and I've waited 6 months to say this - Don't get me started on drivers and pedestrians... - 13th March 2009
A tip for Gordon Brown: put socks on first - That photograph of you outside the White House illustrated a basic mistake - 6th March 2009
The BNP, Titian, a warthog. What's the link? - Something odd lurks behind Tory HQ's wiki-meddling - 13th February 2009
Knight errant hoist up his own flagpole - Sometimes it's hard to know if someone has fallen foul of his own petard - 6th February 2009
If they're burning effigies, we know where - Why Patna deserves a special place on the map; why aren't there any credit crunch conspiracies? - 30th January 2009
Omigod, he's got photos of the 'real India' - David Miliband's big mistake was that night in the hut - 23rd January 2009
A quiet tribute to the unknown donor - Who doesn't remember getting maracas as a gift? - 16th January 2009
How can you be so cruel after all we did? - America may be spurning our advances now, but it will be back - 9th January 2009
Taches - they're gone today but hair tomorrow - A trend in men's facial hair; the ghostly quiet of New Year's Day - 2nd January 2009

Articles: 2008

Dangers of drug use aren’t crystal clear - The worst effect of taking drugs is, well, getting caught - 30th October 2009
How did I survive without nanny? - If you're reading this now, congratulations. You've avoided the fatal hazards posed by Christmas - 26th December 2008
A few clowns but a heap of good TV - People download programmes illegally because they just can't wait - 19th December 2008
Don't slip while you're saving the world - The difference between a slip and a gaffe; the Italian censors and Brokeback Mountain - 12th December 2008
What on earth are they playing at? - We, and India, deserve cricketing heroes with backbone - 5th December 2008
Thank heaven I was never invited to this party - My name isn't on the BNP list, but I feared it might be - 21st November 2008
Even old buffers were novices once - And what about those politicians that can't turn their mobiles off? - 14th November 2008
A stranger in a strange land (Florida) - It's exhausting visiting America. They never understand a word I say - 7th November 2008
A joke's a joke - leave grandad out of it - Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand have betrayed a vile British conspiracy - 31st October 2008
The dark secret in the far Right's closet - Jörg Haider, wherever you are, you're a big disappointment. Because you had to be secretly gay, didn't you? - 24th October 2008
Beware anyone called A.Nony Mouse - Maybe ‘a Whitehall source' is not a real name - 17th October 2008
What did you do in the banking crisis? - A man sobbing in McDonald's is the only thing I've seen falling apart - 10th October 2008
We're all addicted to Ryanair - If the budget airline was the snake in the garden of Eden, Eve would have paid for her own apple - 26th September 2008
That physics lesson was electric - Seamus is a perfectly responsible adult these days. As a child he was a little, hmmm, firestarterish - 19th September 2008
A thin excuse for buying an iPod - An accident with a washing machine; getting genuinely legless; thoughts on the LHC - 12th September 2008
The right to bear arms and the right to bearskins - Could it be that Britain has its priorities a little wrong? - 5th September 2008
Flight can make you feel a bit Icarus - Are we men, with our channel flicking and internet-ready telephones, getting worse at surrendering control? - 22nd August 2008
Wanted urgently: a crash course in Olympic handball - Britain needs to wise up on the more obscure sports - 15th August 2008
Anti-gun strategies just fire up male fantasies - the more you know about guns, the less exciting they seem - 12th August 2008
The maths crisis doesn't count - So if I had carried on doing maths, would I have invented a new shape for the wheel? - 4th June 2008
Why is Mr Brown like Indiana Jones? - The film was appalling. So why is that we can slag off politicians, but not film stars? - 28th May 2008

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