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  1. AHC/WI: Ayn Rand becomes a hit sci-fi author

    Give her a competent editor for Atlas Shrugged.
  2. AHC: Have an animated film win Best Picture

    From the films you've mentioned, if you have a film like that coupled in an annus horribilis for cinema you could probably do it.
  3. AHC: Post-USSR Islamic Governments In Central Asia

    It'd be interesting to see if anyone has any ideas, Central Asia is a very interesting region but an near-totally ignored one.
  4. WI: Black nationalist arrested for MLK murder

    Panthers not, NOI maybe - it was, of course, NOI members that killed Malcolm X.
  5. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Part of the challenge is sorting out the composites. As for the manufacturers, they might have something tasty coming up. Or not. At this point Litespeed/Lotus/Tony Fernandes aren't in F1, they were added months after the PoD. Campos, Virgin-Manor and USF1 are the teams in the pipeline. Will...
  6. Motorsport WI: Group S isn't stillborn

    Rallying's changed a lot in the sense of safety, marshaling and similar. A power limit sounds like the sort of thing that can be bypassed, in the attitudes of the time at least, by messing around with electronics. As for dropping the minimum to ten, that could get awfully like the late 90s GT1...
  7. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Just a note: none of those teams have pulled out (yet?).
  8. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Note: for the avoidance of doubt, pseudonymous social media accounts are fictional characters not based on any particular ill-informed muppet. 29th of July, 2009 FOTA Press Conference, The Science Museum, London, 11am Martin Whitmarsh: Thank you for coming everybody. On behalf of the teams I...
  9. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Will do. I seem to remember you posted on the original. As I said, this isn't an exercise in literature (if you want one of them, read Agent Lavender), just an exercise in expelling ideas. I'll drop you a line if there are any ideas I'd like to bounce.
  10. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    25th of July, 2009 BBC One. Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying Jonathan Legard: Ted's got some news from the Ferrari garage. Ted? Ted Kravitz: Thank you Jonathan ... yes, Felipe Massa's car isn't starting. It appears there's some kind of electrical fault. I've got no idea exactly what they're...
  11. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    That was a flash-forward. You may be able to find it. And here's the next post, which should shed some light.
  12. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Not quite. As this is a redux, you may be able to identify what this is about.
  13. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Prologue: 5th of November, 2017 Fourth. Again. His team-mate won. Not that he cared. The Prancing Horse winning the Constructors' Championship for the seventeenth time. Some silverware at the end of the season for the first time in his career since some Formula 3 in front of no-one eight years...
  14. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Aren't you one of those Politibrits? Sort of. So, is this about politics? Nope. So what is it about then? Read the title. Didn't you do something similar? Yes. So it's a reboot? Yes. Hopefully I'll have some more ideas. I'm not planning on writing much prose, just finishing off some...
  15. AHC: How can Ireland revive the Irish language?

    Magically make English disappear in a puff of smoke, make the UK disappear or go full Juche-style isolation.
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