Recent content by Wozza

Essentially this, New York is built on granite, London on clay, which makes throwing up a syscraper a massive effort in terms of foundations. Still, we seem to get more every year now.

And the prize for naive comment of the week goes to... Upper and upper-middle class girls were expected to be virgins, or to appear as such, at marriage. They were then expected to breed. After that it was expected that they might, fairly discretely, play the field, as would their husbands...

All inhabitants of British colonies had full rights as a result of the Commonwealth Nationality Act 1948, which was soon taken advantage of by citizens of the West Indies. Britain had a black population from the 18th century, I don't know how familiar you are with the paintings of Wilkie and...

This ignores the economics, and slightly differently, the finances of the situation.All Allied borrowing was controlled through a single commission dominated by the British, without British credit the financial position will be incredibly weak. They are also of course the ones vulnerable to...

I don't see any particular reason France should overtake Britain in this timeline. Not that it couldn't necessarily. This whole concept is highly flawed - the fact remains that the British weren't convinced the Central Powers would beat France and Russia. This whole idea depends on a crystal...

A relatively small proportion of the workforce of even a militarised economy works actually making weapons, a lot more makes subcomponents and prepares the raw materials and the supporting infrastructure. The truth is that the Nazis did feed in foreign labour, with varying degrees of success...

It's not just daft, it's not really possible, there is no way to transport or supply them at distance, all they could do is turn-up and sit somewhere, if they ever got anywhere in the first place. There's something of a limit to how much manouvreing a 45 can do on his own two feet, for the...

The man who has spent a year warning of grim austerity - he has a funny way of telling people what they want to hear. Thande's comment above seems to have been the opposite reason for criticism to yours. The austerity message was a gamble: sometimes there are points for honesty, sometimes you...

What if Osborne still made his inheritance tax announcement and that still saw a poll boost? Osborne would then likely be credited with improving the result. He strikes me as one of the most consistently underestimated politicians around at the moment. He has pulled things out of the hat...

And they did get wasted by their fellow Americans quite a bit at first. The Briitsh took far more prisoners and far more ground. Allied wars are allied wars but this isn't just jingoism, it's inaccurate.

This isn't quite accurate. The commons was a plebeian body until the Tudor reforms, when it was taken over by the landed gentry with the introduction of the 40s leasehold suffrage rule. This however extended to a range of people, perhaps a fifth or more of adult males, which meant far more...

Technically it is probably sedition.

The problem with this is that both carriers were wartime emergency builds and not in great shapre. Ark Royal was, ironically in worse shape, and Eagle could have gone on longer as you suggest. But I am not sure Ark could have been kept going as long as it did without cannibalising Eagle. I...

Not exactly Alternate History but in the right space. Anyone read it. Having just finished it I must say I really liked it, subtle and well-written. Particularly amused by the postscript at the end moving to the academic seminar and "all those signed up to the fishing trip," talk about...

I think a quick search of the internet will reveal that this largely isn't true Have you ever met an Irish person?