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David Aaronovitch

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social
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Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 8h
A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...
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The anti-Zionism of fools
On the Corbynising of the Green party
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social asks what exactly is the triple lock, can we still afford it+is there an alternative? Guests Carl Emmerson, Partner at London Economics Sophie Hale, Research Director, Resolution Foundation Steve Webb, Partner at LCP and former Pensions Minister in Coalition Government
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BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, Is the triple lock pension guarantee sustainable?
Why is the state pension protected by the triple lock?
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center: another tale from Trumpland davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...
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“When I hear the word culture”...
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center: another tale from Trumpland davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...
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“When I hear the word culture”...
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charles Spencer's Diana book is out this week. Here's why I wish it wasn't. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/true-but-d...
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True but despicable
Earl Spencer and the Diana industry
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charles Spencer's Diana book is out this week. Here's why I wish it wasn't. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/true-but-d...
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True but despicable
Earl Spencer and the Diana industry
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The problem wasn't the distinction. I was just trying to illustrate how strongly this man might feel about the T-shirt. Whether you or I agree with him on the issue is not the point. The question was how to resolve the problem.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A free post on the intrusion of the opinions of others davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/genocide-a...
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Genocide at the gym
On not being able to escape the opinions of others
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The specious arguments that killed assisted dying: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-assist...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...
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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms
Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The specious arguments that killed assisted dying: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-assist...
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More tales from the cultural crypt davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/a-muslim-a...
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A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew walk into a cathedral
Or a theatre, or Portsmouth harbour, or wherever a row can be created
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More tales from the cultural crypt davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/a-muslim-a...
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A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew walk into a cathedral
Or a theatre, or Portsmouth harbour, or wherever a row can be created
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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the growing popularity of the crudest kind of racism on the right: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How ethnicity has replaced merit on the political Right. A free post. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/man-on-the...
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Man on the road
Why we have work to do
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How ethnicity has replaced merit on the political Right. A free post. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/man-on-the...
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Man on the road
Why we have work to do
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher. Why no one should be shocked. A magazine length feature davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-unreli...
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The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher
How we are shocked by something we should have expected
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher. Why no one should be shocked. A magazine length feature davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-unreli...
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The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher
How we are shocked by something we should have expected
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Slavery Abolition Act of got Royal Assent on this day in 1833. It freed about 800,000 people. 45,000 slave owners (3000 in the UK) were paid compensation for human property: a total of £20 million in 1833 - about £3 billion by inflation (or much more 40% of Treasury income, or 5% of GDP in 1833)
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Ben Carter @bbcben.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yesterday was the last episode of the current run of Radio 4’s The Briefing Room. Only nine episodes but felt like we covered a lot. If you want to listen to @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social and guests talking about Iran, immigration, social care, Gen Z and lots more…listen on BBC Sounds now
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Feature length dive into how the British New Right created the new racist Right davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/letting-th...
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Letting the far right one in
How the New Right opened the door to the racist Right
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Feature length dive into how the British New Right created the new racist Right davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/letting-th...
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Letting the far right one in
How the New Right opened the door to the racist Right
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Press release on the new changes to planning policy now out. We're expecting the details later today. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Full steam ahead to fast-track more homes near stations
Thousands of quality homes to be built closer to stations, cutting commute times and helping families live closer to work, school and transport
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
if you read the last sentence, you'll see that the point wasn't missed
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What you're saying makes no sense. Goodbye.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A short free post davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/icarus-fal...
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Icarus falling
A further thought on the tragic Arday affair
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Want to give a shout-out to one of the BBC's most consistently excellent radio shows, @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social's "The Briefing Room". Today I caught up with a fab two-parter on immigration featuring @msumption.bsky.social, @bbcdomc.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social. Do give it a listen.
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BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, Part 1: How's the government doing on immigration?
David Aaronovitch and guests discuss small boats, asylum seekers and illegal migration.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That was no reflection on the virtues of Salford University. Quite the contrary.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Some people want the Arday affair to be all about race and woke. Here is why it isn't... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Jason and the fabulists
No it wasn't race, or DEI, or sappy liberals
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/08/2026
This week Andy Burnham is going on a tour of the UK talking about dodgy shops. In the spirit of providing him with some ideas, London Centric partnered with Edinburgh Minute to look for the Londoner running gift shops that recently burned down in Scotland. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...
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Exit through the gift shop
Plus: "Vertical drinking" politics • Robocop comes to Greggs • Robotaxis controlled by humans • London's festivals-in-parks mess
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Some people want the Arday affair to be all about race and woke. Here is why it isn't... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Jason and the fabulists
No it wasn't race, or DEI, or sappy liberals
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Infantino and the Kushnerisation of the planet: the world fights back open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Gianni and the Kushners
The world fights back
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Infantino and the Kushnerisation of the planet: the world fights back open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Gianni and the Kushners
The world fights back
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A point that the essay makes
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
According to Reform? Both of us probably
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement . open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Truly hurty words
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement
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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
'Not every political murder represents a big slide down the slope to Nazism and world war, they are very rarely harbingers of anything but ill.' And @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social then goes on to analyse that 'ill' today. Grim and truly sobering davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/truly-hurt...
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Truly hurty words
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Briefing Room episode on immigration with @bbcdomc.bsky.social Madeleine Sumption and @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Lots of interesting detail about why small boat arrivals are low at the moment.
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BBC Audio | The Briefing Room | Part 1: How's the government doing on immigration?
David Aaronovitch and guests discuss small boats, asylum seekers and illegal migration.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement . open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Truly hurty words
The murder of Ann Widdecombe and the question of incitement
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Down Tools Abbey - the real 1920s - a free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Britain's nearly revolution
The General Strike of 1926
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Down Tools Abbey - the real 1920s - a free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Britain's nearly revolution
The General Strike of 1926
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Two men, two books, two srlf-serving accounts of redemption. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Holy rolling with Vance and Brand
Two terrible Jesus journeys
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gosh, no. I'm no expert but seems very likely there was indeed such a person.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Two men, two books, two srlf-serving accounts of redemption. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Holy rolling with Vance and Brand
Two terrible Jesus journeys
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The slow return to earth of the left and right populists open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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The deflating Faranskis
Has populism peaked?
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Orwell was writing 90 years ago. And i am wondering what you mean by 'Southern ways'
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is Sarah. Every attribute that you have given to northerners as opposed to Southerners is virtuous. Personally, I don't think these generalisations are particularly valuable.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You've missed out 'modesty'
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I can't help feeling that you're making qualification as a northerner quite difficult
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