August 2014, Aaronovitch was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. In 2016, he endorsed the United Kingdom's continued membership of the European Union in the 23 June referendum. Aaronovitch later said that Brexit would eventually be reversed as the number of older voters, who typically voted for Britain to leave the European Union, gradually die. Personal life Aaronovitch lives in London with his wife and three daughters. He is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and has a keen interest in collecting leather jackets. In 2011, Aaronovitch was the victim of a "medical accident" following routine surgery. He survived septicemia thanks to antibiotics, a treatment that was not available to his grandmother, who died of an infection following an insect bite in 1930. This experience led him to become an advocate for Antibiotic Research UK and the charity's work to promote proper antibiotic use and the development of new antibiotics. Works Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (Fourth Estate, 2000) No Excuses for Terror, a 45-minute documentary film that "criticizes how the anti-Israel views of the far-left and far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse." Blaming the Jews, a 45-minute documentary film that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture. God and the Politicians, 28 September 2005, a documentary film that looks at the important question of the increasing religious influence on politics in the UK Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, Jonathan Cape, 2009, Published in the US in 2010 by Riverhead Books, Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists. Jonathan Cape, 2016. References External links David Aaronovitch on Twitter David Aaronovitch's Guardian; columns David Aaronovitch column in The Times Interview with Aaronovitch on "New Books in History" David Aaronovitch blog 1954 births Living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester BBC newsreaders and journalists Contestants on University Challenge Critics of conspiracy theories English columnists English communists English humanists English male journalists English people of Irish descent English people of Jewish descent Former Marxists People educated at Holloway School People educated at William Ellis School People from Hampstead Presidents of the National Union of Students (United Kingdom)