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David Aaronovitch

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David Aaronovitch

@DAaronovitch

Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room, author of Voodoo Histories, now Substacking with Notes from the Underground. Instagram: david_aaronovitch

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Born July 8

Joined May 2010

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David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Mar 31, 2023
If you miss me in the middle of The Times You can't find me nowhere Come on over to the Underground I'll be writing right there...
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David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Mar 3, 2022
I’m beginning to confuse the honours list and the sanctions list. But I suppose it doesn’t matter.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Dec 18, 2021
Bollocks to all the Lord Frost resignation ‘reasons’. He’s going because he crowed, threatened, struck stances and FAILED.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Jul 24, 2022
This could quite easily have been the front of a National Front flyer from the 70s. I’d like to see Truss and her supporters asked to disavow it.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Jan 20, 2019
In my new book "How to clutter", I recommend having a minimum of 30 books by your bed. Otherwise you can't be certain of having something good to read.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Nov 30, 2022
To have two children in a top London private school will cost their parents over £60k a year (ie more than £100k net income). This is NOT about aspiration. It's about wealth.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Jan 12, 2020
I hadn't been following it, partly because Piers Morgan is such a tawdry waste of space. But having just seen a compilation of his Meghan-hating pieces in the Mail I think there's something vaguely deranged about him.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Oct 15, 2021
If you're wondering why British covid rates are so much higher than, say, German ones, just travel on a train in either country or go into a crowded shop.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Dec 20, 2021
Off to work. Keys, phone, notebook, bottle of red wine….
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Apr 24, 2022
Le Pen didn't win. She didn't nearly win. She didn't remotely win. She won as well as Jeremy Corbyn did in 2019. To analyse this result as a victory for her is just perverse.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Jul 22, 2019
Surely if we could land a man on the moon 50 years ago we should have managed to find someone to be prime minister who knew wtf they were talking about.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Aug 21, 2019
The Queen of Denmark invites the president of the United States to visit her country. He accepts but then abruptly cancels his trip because the Danish government won't sell him Greenland. And there are still some people who think this is not a problem.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Nov 10, 2018
These are who our friends are.
Emmanuel Macron
@EmmanuelMacron
Nov 10, 2018
Unis.
David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Aug 4, 2024
One thing that will happen as a result of these riots is that some really stupid people (the looter without a mask wearing the St George's Cross shirt?) will end up going to prison and the guys who have stirred this up will sitting pretty in their TV studios and behind their
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