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James Crossland

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Professor of #History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils". #spies, #terrorism, extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔊Summer's over. Back to work.

Upcoming "Rogue Agent" events in Cheshire, London and the Isle of Wight
#history #historybookchat
🗃️📝💙📚✏️

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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 3h

What if China doesn’t invade Taiwan the way we expect?

A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective

In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,

warontherocks.com

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3h

Its cute that he asked

Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 3h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

InfoWars' Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to block $1.4bn defamation ruling

He petitioned the court to put the judgment on pause and consider his appeal as he works to keep Infowars from being sold to The Onion.

www.bbc.com

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 12h

We live in a postmodern dystopia. Anything is possible

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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 19h

"I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk."

Happy Birthday to #PJHarvey. Photo credit Steve Gullick.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 13h

Its a two for one - anti-semitic conspiracy theory + otherizing of Muslims.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 14h

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

To guess from looks alone, a magnificent wizard with stories of adventure and mystery to tell

Who is Laszlo Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Everything you need to know about this year’s winner and his apocalyptically gloomy novels

www.thetimes.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 15h

Who let the Super Friends out the tree house and have they all packed their ear medicine for the journey?

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23h

A real sign of what's wrong with this country is that I thought this might be an indie band

James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 15h

If he doesn't win the Peace Prize, I assume Detroit gets invaded next week.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20h

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is there anything AI graphic design can't do?

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

www.theguardian.com

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Maartje Abbenhuis @maartjeabb.bsky.social · 3d

Lectureship in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland! Come join me and my wonderful colleagues! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 3d

The meme-ification of political violence

Very thoughtful discussion here

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

The meme-ification of political violence

It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

www.msnbc.com

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3d

This is an extreme example, but if people travelled abroad more via train there might be a little less tolerance for the shit burger of public transport Britain gets served.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3d

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

It's time we do something to make our overly woke military more violently masculine, says this fella named George Lincoln Rockwell (who you may have heard of) in the pages of the American Mercury in 1957.

WHO WANTS PANTY-WAIST MARINES?
by G. Lincoln Rockwell
On his flank, a Marine assault group under Colonel "Chesty"
ing. Three times he had led his Puller had been making simulta-men up that Korean hill in the face of murderous fire, and three times
neous attacks up the hill. He had also been driven back three times,
he had been beaten back, with men with fearful losses. But the Ma-dropping like fies. He had risen to lead
rines came back four times, under
a fourth charge up that the blazing leadership of the pint-bloody slope. But he had risen sized colonel, and took the hill. alone. In spite of personal gallant-
Now, back at field headquar-
ry and inspiring leadership, he had ters, the Army Colonel who had been unable to rally his demoral- been unable to get that last ounce ized men.
of fight out of his men was emo-

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss is someone who drops six substacks a day and the alerts for them go into my junk folder.

Outside of that, I have no idea who this person is or why I should care

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but the last three decades have lasted for about 612 years.

James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 4d

www.isleofwightliteraryfestival.com/jamescrossland

Looking forward to talking about Robert Bruce Lockahrt's plots, misteps and legacy @iowlf.bsky.social this Friday!
🗃📚 #booksky #books

Tickets 🔽🔽

JAMES CROSSLAND

www.isleofwightliteraryfestival.com

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The damage isn't just physical.

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

www.theguardian.com

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 4d

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 4d

The best thing Conservatives could do - whatever they think of Margaret Thatcher - is to face up to the challenges of their own times, rather than trying to cosplay a leader who was formed in the 1930s and 40s, who took power half a century ago & who governed for the challenges of her day, not ours.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 5d

Aaand that's enough internet for today.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d

Since 2012, individuals adopting the name of the Star Wars character Darth Vader (Ukrainian: Дарт Вейдер) have entered local, presidential, and parliamentary elections in Ukraine.[1] "Vader" also participated in political and social activism, notably in the Odesa region.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 6d

Oh God, not this again. The use of -ize rather than -ise does not mark a US/British English divide. Standard Oxford is -ize for example. There's a whole Inspector Morse episode about this. Expected better from the FT

Why I welcome Americanisation. Sorry, Americanization

News of the British Museum’s fundraising gala smacks of the sort of imitation and assimilation we’re good at

www.ft.com

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 6d

Quietly confident that this will be fantastic

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival @chagrinfilmfest.bsky.social · 6d

John Candy: I LIKE ME - see it first at #CDFF16, Oct 7. Director Colin Hanks’ new documentary celebrates the beloved comedian with rare footage + heartfelt stories. Tickets are limited: cdff2025.eventive.org/schedule

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6d

Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.

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