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  1. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    I'm not too surprised that Hitler Thought has such a strong nationalist element to it. It's rather hard for me to think of a successful socialist revolution that didn't somewhat adopt such nation-focused rhetoric, although there are those who argue that the October Revolution is the exception...

  2. WI: Shore becomes Labour Leader in 1980

    The more I read about Shore, the more I get the impression that his sympathies for siege economics and absence of such for the EEC kept him from going for the SDP. The only way I see him becoming leader is in a world where Foot is standing down, a larger SDP has meant all the senior Right are...

  3. List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

    I enjoyed it. At first glance, it seems similar to Russia in the recovery of the Communists and the difficulties in transitioning to the post-collapse world, not least in foreign affairs, but then it takes a more stable turn and is more middling than intervening with the exception of Scotland...

  4. "Hipster" PMs and Presidents Thread

    Entering the House of Lords didn't kill his chances, but it certainly weakened them. What killed his chances was a mixture of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (not a deal-breaker on its own, Austen survived it) and his own personality; which was devolving into rabid anti-socialism through the 1920s and...

  5. "Hipster" PMs and Presidents Thread

    Ronald Munro Ferguson: The most Liberal Imperialist of Liberal Imperialists, a Rosebery ally, and supporter of Scottish Devolution. His career in Britain sank after he attacked Asquith for diverging from Rosebery and became Governor-General of Australia. He might have done much better if...

  6. WI John Smith Survived?

    I was more asking what impact Smith would have if, rather than dying, he resigned in 1994 because of the heart attack. Sort-of an elder statesman for the party and if that could yield a substantial effect on the New Labour years.

  7. WI John Smith Survived?

    What if John Smith survived his heart attack in 1994? Now, this comes up once every while and it often concerns the same subject. What kind of Prime Minister would he be? After all, while it's often over-stated that Labour would have won a super-landslide with any leader, it's very unlikely...

  8. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    The two best moments of dark comedy during the road to World War One have to be when Wilhelm saw the Serbian reply and then wondered aloud if maybe he shouldn't have given the Blank Cheque after all, and when-as German troops were mobilising-all of a sudden realised that attacking neutral...

  9. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Ah, Wilhelm Junior. In some ways, he was worse than his father in that he was consistently pro-Nazi until finding out that Hitler wasn't a monarchist, while at least Billy had a brief crisis of conscience over Kristallnacht before going back to fawning and Jew-bashing. I guess it depends on...

  10. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Reading that update made me think a German-Soviet Split is likely to happen, if Stalin takes over like OTL. Hitler may be a socialist and more pragmatic, but he's still Hitler and there's a trace of stubbornness and megalomania in him that won't stand simply taking orders from Moscow. Maybe from...

  11. Blair without Iraq?

    IIRC, Brown's reaction to the backbench revolt that toppled Blair was something akin to panic that it'd be traced back to him. I'd say the reaction to the crash would be a question of whether Blair's inability to confront Brown on economic matters is stronger than Brown's inability to escalate...

  12. Blair without Iraq?

    If he does call it, and I think he would by 2003/4 without Iraq taking up so much political space and capital, it'd be interesting to see the effects of an explicit rejection of the Euro by a decent margin. I think Blair could still swing a lot of votes as the golden boy but it'd be at most 40%...

  13. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    I always imagined that Goebbels would be making an appearance sooner or later, considering his OTL record, but you managed to portray him as the little creep he is effectively enough. I get the feeling that, even if it's not as much as the OTL Hitler's Germany, there's going to be that...

  14. Harold Macmillan, Roman Catholic

    Yeah, it's a question of who would take his place in certain OTL areas. IIRC, when Eden became PM, he wanted to make Robert Cecil his Foreign Secretary, so whether he lasts longer than SuperMac is a good question to ask. Having an arch-imperialist in the Foreign Office during Suez isn't going to...

  15. "Now Blooms the Tudor Rose."

    Oh definitely, that's one of the problems with reading up on Sengoku Japan, at least from an Anglophone perspective, in that you have to rely on figuring out who exactly the main players are as people when looking at their personality quirks. Kenshin Uesugi is probably one of the few Daimyo who...

  16. "Now Blooms the Tudor Rose."

    Technically, only a descendant of the Minamoto could claim that title, while Oda was a descendant of the Taira. Shingen might make a grab for the prize when he and Nobunaga beat the Miyoshi, seeing as the Takeda had said connection (as did the Tokugawa, Imagawa, and even Ranmaru Mori among other...

  17. "Now Blooms the Tudor Rose."

    I prefer it when the King is mad with tolerance instead of just plain mad, but I can see why the closest thing to the couple with a combo voice message can get grating. Still, poor Janos Henrik. The point about Henry IX and Mary having a complex over loneliness is interesting, both being...

  18. WI: Sengoku jidai ends in a stalemate

    It'd be difficult. A big feature of this period was that people were fighting one another constantly for said land, Clan headship, and so on. If you weren't expanding, or planning to expand, there was someone else trying the same, the conflict between Shingen Takeda and Kenshin Uesugi over...

  19. Alternate Leaders #3 'In It Together'

    It's funny that you use the Boris analogy, as Heath seems to give off more of a DD-vibe in what sounds like opportune opposition coming from bitterness at his own failure mixed with genuine principle. I wonder who the French leader was that vetoed membership back in 1972? Were Maudling's...

  20. What if the Lib-Dems had stayed out of Government?

    The big factor to recall is that the LibDems thought they got off really well with the deal they had. Clegg chose to vote for tuition fees to signal that the LibDems were a party of government and wouldn't have their cake and eat it, when he had the choice to abstain instead, and the Tories were...
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