He joined The Times in 2005, taking over the gossip column ("People") from Andrew Pierce.
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This was based on a conversation with site co-founder Jimmy Wales and included the admission that, in 2010, he (Rifkind) had inserted fictitious information about Queen Victoria in the Wikipedia entry for :29 April (the date in 2011 of the then-planned wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton) and had successfully fooled at least two journalists who had used the material in published stories.
Hugo Rifkind (born 1977), writer for The Times, son of former Conservative Cabinet Minister and MP, Sir Malcolm Rifkind
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