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Y'know how girls sometimes say they've wee'd themselves a little with excitement? I never truly understood that before, but I do after reading this vignette! (and yes, I did vote for Prescott twice in '94)

Not even bad guys doing well, just a word remaining in use, since China by '97 is about as communist as the Adam Smith Insitute.

Hadn't Hipolito already commited suicide, guilt-ridden at what he'd done as a death-camp guard?

Yes, and the reason that 'fear mongering' is so successful and easy is because the horror stories aren't actually false, merely in the past a bit. Contemporary USA isn't the same as 1950 USA, happy to just destroy 85% of North Korea from the air because 'they're just commie gooks', I know that...

Ian finds the topic irrelevant ever since he personally took control of the entire North American continent.

The US already did 'bomb the fuck out of Korea' OTL. The level of devastation was so great that to this day people in the DPRK are more frightened of the US than they'll ever be of the Kims, and the Kims don't even have to try very hard to keep them that way. I doubt unleashing MacArthur...

Yeah, that'll improve the chances of a successful purchase no end. And Belgium could sell Flanders to Germany too. Why didn't anybody think of that at the time?

I seem to remember reading that Tsar was originally going to be 100MT, just because that's a nice round number, but halved it to 50MT so that the crew of the Bear that dropped it had a good chance of getting out of the way in time.

You mean there's more that I haven't read yet? Looks like I have to break it to the other half there's no chance of her getting on the laptop this weekend!

Weren't the last aircraft carriers operated by the RN technically cruisers with a flight-deck? They seemed to do their job ok, but is that only with the capacities of a modern aircraft to use (well, Harriers, relatively modern) and would be no use with WWII-era aircraft?

Have to disagree there, I really liked Manhunt. Indeed, if there'd been an open-world Carcer City then I'd probably still be playing it today.

Hey, don't knock that book, Mrs Thatcher admitted to reading it at least twice. Indeed, it was probably knocked off by Freddie Forsythe in an afternoon just because it was slightly less embarrassing to have a book (any book) as the basis for UK defence posture rather than a Bond film.

On the other hand, Going For Gold would have died an early death, a fortnight in Brum being unlikely to tempt many Europeans to come and tell Henry Kelly who is, denying the world some dreadful old shite. I had to knock Robert Rankin on the head whilst I was giving up the fags, 'cos nearly all...

Potential of a Japanese Vegetarian? Pretty unlikely, fish is too central to Japanese cuisine......(I'll get me coat)

Domestic criminal trials, or a Nuremburg-style international court? I don't think the latter would've been a good idea, the West was quite triumphalist enough as it was ("NATO! FUCK YEAH!"), but a good writer could pull off an interesting story there without it quite becoming ASB, I reckon...

I think he means if the manufacturing capacity remains in Germany and the French buy or take as Versailles reparation. That capacity is then available to Germany once re-armament happens.

I wasn't so much thinking of that as dismantling the facilities and moving them to France (possibly with German 'guest workers' as needed until French staff are trained up). However, from Thoresby's reply, that may be just as impractical anyway.

Boyson wasn't especially posh himself, more like one of the 'Four Yorkshiremen' from not-quite-'Python. He and Paisley actually had very similar backgrounds, but whether they'd have gotten on would depend on how well Methodist preachers (Boyson) get on with the Bible-literalist Baptist...

Ok, here's my second go in as many days at asking a naval question that doesn't turn out to be daft: If Versailles had awarded France the Bayern, wouldn't it be easy to also get France awarded the factory, tools, tools-that-make-tools, etc, needed to keep it supplied with parts for maintenance?

Ted Kord/Nite Owl would work because Nite Owl was originally going to be Blue Beetle. No way for Mr A/Rorschach, though. Steve Ditko still owns the rights to Mr A, and he loathes Rorschach with a passion.