Adam Preston

Book Tickets for Horatio Nelson, Fever and Fire Tosser:

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

I've had no end of trouble with hackers and Facebook admitted I got hacked today - then sent this. Nearly 20 years of data gone and no right of appeal. Be warned: Facebook don't love you at all! And when they take your account away no human being will be involved - just AI

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

With blue-chip costume design by 2025 Primetime Emmy winner Dougie Hawkes and photography by official photographer for the palace of Westminster Roger Harris, my show Horatio Nelson, Fever and Fire runs 8th-11th April at Theatre at the Tabard, Chiswick https://t.co/udEZ6Yf1hY

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

With blue-chip costume design by 2025 Primetime Emmy winner Dougie Hawkes and photography by official photographer for the palace of Westminster Roger Harris, my show Horatio Nelson, Fever and Fire runs 8th-11th April at Theatre at the Tabard, Chiswick. https://t.co/udEZ6Yf1hY

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

@HeathrowAirport your website currently states that BA flights to Lyon today depart from terminal 5 but BA are adamant that it is terminal 3 and it is even on my boarding pass. Can you confirm who is right?

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

There’s something v wrong when someone with authority touts their opinion as fact.Lord Krebs, you say swift bricks don’t work & that swifts only nest higher than houses & only with open access.Err, have you been living under a rock?Our home is their home. ⁦@ZacGoldsmith⁩

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

Being fitted for something very exciting with 2025 Emmy winner Dougie Hawkes (for wardrobe on Bridgerton) and Catherine Darcy at Darcy's in Lewes

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

Excited to be back at the iconic Palais des Festivals in Cannes, from October 13-16, for the legendary #MIPCOM CANNES 2025! https://t.co/w4tqWNC5c2

[Holtz @Biorealism]

Boris Johnson: BC or BCE? The BBC’s edict on how we date events is AD (absolute drivel

We are asked to call the years-before-the-event-we-cannot-mention BCE, or “Before Common Era”, and the years-after-the-event-we-cannot-mention “Common Era”, or CE. You should not underestimate the influence of this verdict. What the BBC decides, all kinds of other publishers and broadcasters will decide to follow. Schools will snap into line, and if people protest they will be told that they are following best practice – it’s what the BBC does, after all.

So this is not some trivial bureaucratic thing: it is a change with subtle but extensive cultural ramifications. I object, first, because no one is asking for this change. I once did a few history programmes for the Beeb, and we referred endlessly to BC/AD, and we didn’t get a single letter of complaint.

I object because no one is offended by these terms. We talked to loads of Muslim and Jewish scholars, and none batted an eye at my usage; and it is particularly mad to think that Muslims might be offended by a reference to Jesus, when he is an important figure in Islam, and when many Muslims are baffled by this country’s peculiar desire to exterminate cultural references to its Christian history. I should stress at this point that I do not object because I want to vindicate the literal truth of the Christian religion – since I am afraid my faith is like a very wonky aerial, and I sometimes find the signal pretty scratchy. I object because it is all so darned nonsensical. There was no Mr Common Era preaching a ministry in Galilee in the 1st century AD. There is no Eran religion, and no followers of Common.

There was Christ, and if the BBC doesn’t want to date events from the birth of Christ then it should abandon the Western dating system. Perhaps it should use the Buddhist calendar, which says that it is the 2,555th year since the nirvana of Lord Buddha. Perhaps it should have a version of the old Roman calendar, and declare that this is the fourth year of the fourth consulship of Silvio Berlusconi. It could say that this year was 13,400,000 or whatever since the Big Bang, or maybe the BBC should switch to the Mayan calendar and announce that 2011 is the year 1 BC – before the catastrophe that is meant to engulf the planet.

But if the BBC is going to continue to put MMXI at the end of its programmes – as I think it does – then it should have the intellectual honesty to admit that this figure was not plucked from nowhere. We don’t call it 2011 because it is 2011 years since the Chinese emperor Ai was succeeded by the Chinese emperor Ping (though it is); nor because it is 2011 years since Ovid wrote the Ars Amatoria. It is 2011 years since the (presumed) birth of Christ. I object to this change because it reflects a pathetic, hand-wringing, Lefty embarrassment about thousands of years of cultural dominance by the West.

The simple fact is that the Roman empire was programmatic of most of our modern global civilisation, and the decision by Constantine in 330 AD to make Christianity the official religion was one of the most important moments in the history of that empire. That is why we have used this system for 1,500 years and more, and that is why it is accepted in China, Japan and just about anywhere you care to mention that this is the year 2011. The BBC needs to stop spending time and money on this sort of footling political correctness. Someone needs to get out down the corridor and find the individual who passed this edict and give him or her a figurative kick in the pants. I know it sounds like a trivial thing to get worked up about, but one trivial thing leads to another. I urge all readers to get out their Basildon Bond and hit the emails – to Mark Thompson and Lord Patten. Let’s fight this Beeb drivel now. https://t.co/0yPK0LmzmT

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelenskyy against Putin and Russia! 🇺🇦

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

I wrote this about how to read and why.

Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.

Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.

https://t.co/kDNJ92lwJ6

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

I spoke to the EconTalk podcast about how to read and why

The proliferation of social media, podcasts and short form video only emphasises the fact that books are the greatest information technology ever invented

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[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

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[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

Signing my first publishing deal for a novel #writerslife #WritingCommunity #Novel #fiction

[Adam Preston @AdamPreston]

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[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Why do I continue to talk about russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine?

People tell me I should post less about the war and focus more on “professional” topics — economics, science, leadership. After all, I’m an economist, recognized by Forbes as a Top Economic Thinker.

1/n

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

1/8 THREAD:

Despite the successful propaganda, russia is quietly facing a strategic defeat in Ukraine — and too few realize it

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Domestic and feral cats are a big problem for wildlife.

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

🚨The UK Govt is asking the public to give their thoughts on whether they should extend bottom trawling bans in 41 English protected areas. 🌊 This is our chance! Use your voice to help kick this wasteful, destructive practice out of ocean havens! 👇
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