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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) and ''Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History'' (2009). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the ''What the Papers Say'' "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003. == Early life and education== Aaronovitch is the son of communist intellectual and economist Sam Aaronovitch,〔Barker, Martin (1992). (''Haunt of Fears: Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign'' ), University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-594-4〕 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".〔(Stephen Byers and the sad ghost of new Labour )〕 Aaronovitch attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehensive (now Holloway School)〔( The Old Camdenians Club ). Retrieved 31 January 2015〕 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, David (14 July 2000). ("Parliament has become no more than a museum" ), ''The Independent'' (London).〕 Aaronovitch completed his education at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History. While at Manchester, Aaronovitch was a member of the 1975 ''University Challenge'' team that lost in the first round after answering most questions with the name of a Marxist ("Trotsky", "Lenin", "Karl Marx" or "Che Guevara"). The tactics were a protest against the fact that Oxford University and Cambridge University were allowed to enter each of their colleges into the contest as a separate team, even though the colleges were not universities in themselves. Aaronovitch was initially a Eurocommunist, and was active in the National Union of Students (NUS). There he got to know the president at the time, 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Aaronovitch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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