David Aaronovitch
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David Aaronovitch at Guildford Skeptics in the Pub
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| Born | 8 July 1954 |
| Residence | London, England |
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Balliol College, Oxford University of Manchester |
| Occupation | Journalist, broadcaster, author |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Sam Aaronovitch |
| Awards | Columnist of the Year; Orwell Prize for Political Journalism |
David Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. He is a regular columnist for The Times, and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003. He previously wrote for The Independent and The Guardian.
Aaronovitch is the son of communist intellectual and economist Sam Aaronovitch, and brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and scriptwriter and author Ben Aaronovitch. He has written that he was brought up "to react 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 from October 1973 until April 1974, when he was expelled for failing the German language section of his history exams. Aaronovitch completed his education at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History.
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