David Aaronovitch is a columnist for The Times and presenter of Radio 4’s weekly analysis programme The Briefing Room. He’s worked for just about everyone in the broadsheet and high end TV and radio business and is the author of three books, including Voodoo Histories – a history of modern conspiracy theories, and Party Animals: My Family and other Communists, about his family and, er, other communists. He’s a Spurs season ticket holder, dog owner and father to three grown-up daughters. Needless to say he lives in North London, where he was born, which probably makes him a citizen of nowhere.