David Aaronovitch to give 2019 Geddes Journalism Lecture

This year’s Geddes journalism lecture will be given by David Aaronovitch of The Times, on the culture wars: “Do liberals need to use the media tactics of their opponents in order to win?” We look forward to welcoming David as our guest speaker on Friday 1 March at 5:30pm in the South School of Oxford’s Examination Schools.

David Aaronovitch is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He writes on politics, international affairs, culture, problems of democracy, literature and the arts.

David joined the Independent in 1995, then moved in 2003 to the Guardian and the Observer, and in 2005 to The Times where he is a columnist. David has presented and appeared in numerous TV and radio programmes, including Have I Got News For You and Question Time. He won the What The Papers Say 1998 award for a writer about broadcasting, the 2000 Orwell prize for journalism and the What The Papers Say 2003 Columnist of the Year award.

His bio on The Times website describes him as “a columnist who was once president of the National Union of Students and a communist, but is now a radical moderate.”

All are welcome to attend this free public lecture, which is organised by the Geddes Trust and St Edmund Hall. It is organised each year in memory of Philip Geddes, graduate of St Edmund Hall and a promising young journalist who was killed by an IRA bomb in 1983.