David Morris Aaronovitch was born on 8 July 1954 and is an English journalist, television presenter and author.
20 Facts About David Aaronovitch
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David Aaronovitch is a regular columnist for The Times and the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country, Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists.
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David Aaronovitch won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003.
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David Aaronovitch previously wrote for The Independent and The Guardian.
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David Aaronovitch's parents were atheists whose "faith was Marxism", according to Aaronovitch, and he is ethnically half Jewish and half Irish.
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David Aaronovitch has written that he was brought up "to react to wealth with a puritanical pout".
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David Aaronovitch attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehensive until 1968, and William Ellis School from 1968 to 1972, all in London.
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David Aaronovitch completed his education at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with a 2:1 BA in History.
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David Aaronovitch was initially a Eurocommunist, and was active in the National Union of Students.
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David Aaronovitch himself succeeded Trevor Phillips as president of the NUS from 1980 to 1982.
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David Aaronovitch moved to print journalism in 1995, working for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday as chief leader writer, television critic, parliamentary sketch writer and columnist until the end of 2002.
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David Aaronovitch began contributing to The Guardian and The Observer in 2003 as a columnist and feature writer.
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David Aaronovitch has been a columnist for The Jewish Chronicle.
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David Aaronovitch hosted the BBC series The Blair Years, which examined the prime ministership of Tony Blair.
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Some journalists were unimpressed with David Aaronovitch or dismissed the series.
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In late 2005, David Aaronovitch was co-author, with Oliver Kamm and journalist Francis Wheen, of a complaint to The Guardian, after it published an apology to Noam Chomsky for an interview by Emma Brockes, in which she asserted that Chomsky had denied the Srebrenica massacre.
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David Aaronovitch later said that Brexit would eventually be reversed as the number of older voters, who typically voted for Britain to leave the European Union, gradually die.
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David Aaronovitch is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and has a keen interest in collecting leather jackets.
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In 2011, David Aaronovitch was the victim of a "medical accident" following routine surgery.
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David Aaronovitch survived septicemia thanks to antibiotics, a treatment that was not available to his grandmother, who died of an infection following an insect bite in 1930.