David Aaronovitch

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David Aaronovitch (2012)

David Aaronovitch (born July 8, 1954 in London ) is a British newspaper journalist.

Life

David Aaronovitch is the son of Sam Aaronovitch , a British economist and an official of the British Communist Party (CPGB). His mother is Lavender Aaronovitch. Among his siblings are the actor Owen Aaronovitch and the writer Ben Aaronovitch . In his youth, family life revolved around the activities of parents in the CPGB.

David Aaronovitch attended a Comprehensive School in North London and began studying history at Balliol College , Oxford . He moved to Victoria University in Manchester , where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1978 . He was active in university politics and was chairman of the National Union of Students from 1980 to 1982 .

Aaronovitch has been working as a freelance journalist ever since. In 1987 he left the CPGB and settled 2002 with the book Arson, rape and bloody murder with himself and the party. He became an unconditional supporter of Tony Blair's policies .

Aaronovitch hosted the political Sunday magazine On the Record on the BBC from 1988 . He has been a columnist for the London Times since 2005 , where he wrote over 600 articles (as of 2016). In 2016 he published a family and party biography.

Aaronovitch received the 2001 Orwell Prize for Political Journalism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country . London: Fourth Estate, 2000 ISBN 978-1-84115-540-1 .
  • Arson, rape and bloody murder . London: Fourth Estate, 2002.
  • The end of the poisoned embrace , in: Simon Rogers (Ed.): The Hutton Inquiry and its impact . London: Politico's Guardian Books, 2004.
  • Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History , London: Jonathan Cape, 2009, ISBN 978-0-224-07470-4 .
  • Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels : The communist manifesto . Introduction by David Aaronovitch. London: Vintage Books, 2010.
  • Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists . Jonathan Cape, 2016.
Movies
  • No excuses for terror . 2006. [Documentation on current anti-Semitism in Europe].
  • Blaming the Jews . [Documentation on current anti-Semitism in the Arab world]
  • God and the Politicians . 2005. [Documentation on the growing influence of religion on politics in Great Britain]

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Lloyd : Kept in the Party , review, in: Financial Times , January 16, 2016, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Aaronovitch, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British newspaper journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London