James Crossland
Professor of History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils".
#History #spies, #terrorism, extremism, propaganda, weird people and things that are not real
Substack - jamescrossland.substack.com
- Define: "dystopia"
- Really hoping this stuff boasted of Germany's lighting victory over Russia, but arrived in December 1941.
- From a Comms perspective, these dipshits should have foreseen this line of condemnation and prepared accordingly. Their lack of understanding of basic stuff is breathtaking.
- The way things are going, this click-grabber of a line is all Starmer will be remembered for. Hope it's worth it for him.
- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This column is about the obstructions that the modern world puts in the way of young people getting secure employment, but the headline is click bait university bashing I'd say do better @theguardian.com , but I know you won't
- Right v Left hasn't been useful for a long time. Right v Wrong doesn't sit well with me. Too moralistic. How about Real v Not Real? Facts v Bullshit?
- "To fight a Trumpesque future we should abandon the useless straight jacket of ‘Left vs Right’ and replace it with the more powerful, crystal-clear moral axis of right vs wrong." westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/its...
- Getting ready to talk some Robert Bruce Lockhart at the @histassoc.bsky.social conference #ha2025
- Herbert Hoover, the "with it" tech guy of the 1920s. It's like when the press lost their minds over Obama and his Blackberry
- jamescrossland.substack.com/p/how-to-ter... If in need of something different from American Popes and VE Day celebrations, I wrote about a curious case of terrorism via poison that occurred in Hong Kong during the Second Opium War - for the lols. #history 🗃️ ⬇️
- www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... Wrote a piece for VE Day on the history of Operation Braddock - an ambitious plan to use sabotage and psychological warfare to hasten the Third Reich's defeat #history 🗃️
- "I had never seen a Russian nihilist except on the stage and my first impression was that he was singularly cast for the part" - Churchill on Boris Savinkov. Died #otd in 1925 when he 'fell' out of a window in Russia 🗃️ #history I wrote about him here: jamescrossland.substack.com/p/terrorist-...
- Stack this next to the other 6,567 unintended dangerous consequences of people mindlessly pursuing a world where machines do our thinking for us.
- Radical thought - the Britain of 2025 isn't the one of 1945. I know Allison. Scares the shit out of me too.
- We also get paid in magic beans that sprout beanstalks leading to the Marxist, woke nirvana in the clouds.
- Assessed by Basil Thomson of Special Branch as a "dangerous ringleader of deranged women"
- www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Nice idea. However, announcing to the classroom that you intend to become the cool kid pretty much guarantees you will not become the cool kid.
