David Aaronovitch
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David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, television presenter, and author.
He is a regular columnist for The Times and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Vol. II, The People and the West's Computation of Modern History, 2009 and Other Communists (2016).
In 2001, he received the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and the "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003.
He had written for The Independent and The Guardian before.
Early life and education
Aaronovitch, the son of communist intellectual and economist Sam Aaronovitch, and the brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch. According to Aaronovitch, his parents were atheists whose "faith was Marxism," and he is ethnically half Jewish and half Irish. He has said that he was brought up "to respond to wealth with a puritanical pout."
Aaronovitch attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehensive (now Holloway School) until 1968, and William Ellis School from 1968 to 1972, all in London. He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. Aaronovitch continued his education at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History.
Aaronovitch was a member of the 1975 University Challenge team who lost in the first round after answering the majority of questions with the name of a Marxist ("Trotsky," "Karl Marx," or "Che Guevara") while at Manchester. Despite the fact that the colleges were not universities, the tactics were a protest against the fact that the University of Oxford and Cambridge University were allowed to enter each of their colleges into the competition as a separate squad.
Aaronovitch was born a Eurocommunist and was active in the National Union of Students (NUS). At the time, he wanted to know the president, Charles Clarke, who later became Home Secretary. Aaronovitch himself succeeded Trevor Phillips as President of the NUS from 1980 to 1982. He was elected on a Left Alliance ticket.
Personal life
Aaronovitch and his three children live in London. He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and is keen on obtaining leather jackets.
Following routine surgery, Aaronovitch was the victim of a "medical disaster" in 2011. He survived septicemia thanks to antibiotics, a therapy that was not available to his grandmother, who died of an infection after an insect bite in 1930. Following this work, he became an ambassador for Antibiotic Research UK and the charity's efforts to promote appropriate antibiotic use and the development of new antibiotics.
Career in journalism
Aaranovitch began his media career in the early 1980s as a television researcher and later producer for the ITV programme Weekend World. In 1988, he began working at the BBC as founding editor of the political current affairs programme On the Record.
He moved to print journalism in 1995, working for The Independent and Independent on Sunday as chief leader writer, television critic, parliamentary sketch writer and columnist until the end of 2002.
He began contributing to The Guardian and The Observer in 2003 as a columnist and feature writer. Aaronovitch's columns appeared in The Guardian's G2 section. His desire for his pieces to appear on the main comment pages, according to Peter Wilby, was reportedly vetoed by the section editor, Seumas Milne, although Aaronovitch himself does not know if Milne was involved in the decision. Since June 2005, he has written a regular column for The Times. He has also been a columnist for The Jewish Chronicle. In addition, Aaronovitch has written for a variety of other major British news and opinion publications, such as the New Statesman. In addition, he has written for New Humanist, and is an "honorary associate" of its publisher, the Rationalist Association.
Aaronovitch also presents or contributes to radio and television programmes, including the BBC's Have I Got News for You and BBC News 24. In 2004 he presented The Norman Way, a three-part BBC Radio 4 documentary looking at régime change in 1066.
Aaronovitch also hosted the BBC series The Blair Years (2007), which examined the prime ministership of Tony Blair. Some journalists were unimpressed with Aaronovitch or dismissed the series.