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Greg Evans
May 01, 2019
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There are some people in the world who we really have to question why they say and do certain things - and one of those is Sky News broadcaster, Adam Boulton.
In recent appearances on Sky, Boulton has confused Latvia with Lithuania and also called an Extinction Rebellion protestor 'middle class' and 'incompetent'.
Now he is taking to moaning about people reading books. Well, sort of.
On Tuesday, he responded to a tweet by author and book critic, Andy Miller, who shared a picture of the 21 books that he has read in April, which is impressive but not entirely inconceivable.
Books read (or reread) in April 2019. My favourite - narrowly - was Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. https://t.co/Jy3CuC23Qf— Andy Miller (@Andy Miller) 1556613517
Boulton responded to this with a compliment which also doubled up as a thinly veiled dig at Miller.
We're not sure what Boulton was trying to convey here, but it didn't work out and he soon found himself being ridiculed on social media.
@adamboultonSKY Gosh, Adam, I expect you're much too busy and important ever to do something as pointless as *reading*.— Lissa Evans (@Lissa Evans) 1556615972
@adamboultonSKY What an odd (but telling) question.— former leftist #freeassange ✌️✊ (@former leftist #freeassange ✌️✊) 1556615885
@adamboultonSKY People complain that nobody reads enough books these days, yet when someone shows that they very mu… https://t.co/I2jf5Smdo0— John "Time is no Longer Real" Cullen (@John "Time is no Longer Real" Cullen) 1556622943
@adamboultonSKY Oh dear Adam, it’s quite conceivable to read that many books if you give up watching Sky TV of an evening 🙄— Dawn Saunders (@Dawn Saunders) 1556617317
So odd trying to shame someone for reading a lot, when it's their job. I read a similar amount each month, some for… https://t.co/qb4aYsrZhz— Rhiannon L Cosslett (@Rhiannon L Cosslett) 1556618456
Things got worse when the editor of The Spectator, Fraser Nelson, got involved and admitted that he has similar trouble reading that amount of books, especially with Twitter being around.
@adamboultonSKY My reaction too, Adam. Or, rather, it was until iPhone's "Screen Time" started to tell me how many… https://t.co/ELCPUmF1JT— Fraser Nelson (@Fraser Nelson) 1556616790
This prompted Miller to reply, to the editor of a publication he writes for, and point exactly what his job is.
@FraserNelson @adamboultonSKY Gentlemen, I review books regularly for @spectator.— Andy Miller (@Andy Miller) 1556617627
Boulton then replied to Miller and it just wasn't going to get any better, was it?
@i_am_mill_i_am @FraserNelson @spectator So it's almost your job. I could only read literature at that rate when I… https://t.co/s1P3J3smDI— Adam Boulton (@Adam Boulton) 1556617926
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