Is it relatively rare in the 21st century for hereditary peers to take an active role in politics? Who are some examples of active hereditary peers?
Huh, that's fewer than I might've thought. The only original hereditary peerage I remember is the Trudeau being the Earls of Saint-Rémi.
Rare but not unheard of. Justin Trudeau is the 2nd Earl of Saint-Rémi, and an active MIP. The Kennedys are the Duke of Barnstable, and JFK and Caroline (3rd and 5th respectively) were/are both politically active. Bush Sr was Earl Bush of Kennebunkport.
WRT there being fewer peerages than perhaps would be expected, I'm chalking this up to a more egalitarian, less aristocratic slant to the British government and establishment owing to the inclusion of America and Australia. Although the former is still home to a majority of British peerages, mainly on the East Coast.
Also, what did the following people get up to in this TL: Peter Carrington, David Owen, Michael Foot, David Davis, Peter Mandelson, George Galloway, Stanley, Boris, and Jo Johnson, and Emmanuel Macron?
Carrington was a a Conservative politician and diplomat. He never served in Cabinet, but was a key British Commonwealth figure in the negotiation of the Bulawayo Agreement that ended the Rhodesian Bush War. He later served as the secretary general of the Common Defence Pact in the late 1980s.
Owen - English politician, split from the English Labour party to lead the Social Democrats that absorbed the rump Labour party in 1990. Now a life peer in the English House of Lords.
Foot - English politician who presided over the disintegration of the English Labour party into Labour, the Social Democrats and the Co-operative Party.
Davis - longtime backbench member of the Imperial Parliament.
Mandelson - longtime Imperial Social Democratic politician. Served as Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce in the Bush Jr Cabinet. Now a life member of the Imperial Council of Lords.
Galloway - leader of the London branch of the Respect party, and member of the London Assembly for Bethnal Green and Bow.
The Johnson family I want to cover in more detail at some point. Boris never goes into politics and remains a journalist. Jo is a rising star in English politics as is Rachel but in different parties. Stanley was briefly a member of the Imperial Parliament.
Macron - incumbent President of the European Commission.
What's the division of powers like between imperial, federal and state entities (where they exist)? I'd imagine foreign relations, trade, military and finance (setting interest rates and the like). Product standards?
What would go to a federal parliament that wouldn't be the purview of a state? Healthcare maybe?
Foreign relations, trade, military and broad matters of finance. The imperial parliament generally sets basic standards on most legislative areas. Education was historically a dominion power, until it was centralised under Trudeau. Dominions retain control over health, various finance areas, agriculture, transport, fisheries, infrastructure and have some ability for foreign relations in their local area (i.e. Jamaica and Florida can negotiate with Cuba; Hong Kong with China etc.) but all of this only within the standards set by the imperial parliament.
The powers of states and provinces varies in dominions. In places like Australia, Canada and Missouri the subdivisions have jurisdiction over many public goods such as health care, education, welfare, and intra-provincial transportation, whereas in New England the provinces have fewer powers, with significant powers over law enforcement and welfare retained by the federal parliament.
I'd like to know more about the Texan and Californian navies. What sort of naming conventions do they use? Are their ships built in Britain, or do they have their own shipbuilding industries?
Both countries have their own shipbuilding industries, but there are a lot of shared designs and specs between the three countries.
The Royal Californian Navy uses the prefix
ARC - Navy of the Kingdom of the Californias (Armada del Reino de las Californias).
The Texan Navy uses the prefix
RTNS - Republic of Texas Naval Ship.
What are rights for different minorities (ethnic, gender, sexual, romantic) like in this world? Have they generally progressed more or less?
I'd imagine with a strong multiethnic Britain as the worlds foremost power that ethnic minority rights would be stronger then OTL.
Depends where you are in the world. LGBTQ+ rights are generally more progressive in the Commonwealth, but the rest of Africa, Asia and the Arab world are the same as OTL. Ethnic relations are still problematic across the globe; British America has similar (if smaller in scale) problems to OTL [plus don't even mention the clusterf**k that Louisiana was and could erupt into again], then there's the widespread ethnic violence in Nigeria and problems in Ethiopia.
I've been on this site for a year and I'm trying to work out how in hell I've missed this timeline. It's staggering. I do like an enlightened Britwank, having thoroughly enjoyed Rattigan's Anglo Saxon Social Model so now I have this world to revel in too! Thank you!
I'm still working my way through it and in a roundabout way, I found an infobox on TTL's Scotland. I was wondering if there's an equivalent to Wales?
Genuinely quite touched to be mentioned in the same breath as this TL... Thanks
High praise indeed thank you
No Wales infobox yet I'm afraid... I keep getting side tracked.
What are the most interesting/noteworthy parts of the Ohio Country? Asking as that region is highly contested between TTL and the
Affilated States of Boreoamerica's Upper Country, Illinois, Ohio, and Upper Connecticut.
Either Indiana, which is majority Mestee (a creole people of mixed European and Aboriginal descent), or Detroit State where the Muskrat French language and community is the majority.