David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. He became chief leader writer for the Independent in 1995, and has since written for every major newspaper and many magazines, serving as a regular columnist at The Times from 2005 until 2023. He is the 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). 

As a broadcaster he has written and presented numerous TV and radio documentaries and series. Since 2016 he has been the presenter of the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme The Briefing Room. He has won a number of industry awards but, if he’s honest, he doesn’t really believe in them.  

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