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Yes, IIRC NI at this time has 5 clearing banks, the local branches of Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish, which despite operating under Bank of England supervision are controlled by the Dublin HQ’s, then there’s Ulster Bank (NatWest), Northern Bank (Midland) and TSB Northern Ireland. All of whom...

Extremely. Rhodesia had large reserves of coal, iron ore, chromium and gold as well as a rudimentary industrial base, that it could use to sustain its insurgency, a central bank with its own currency plus professional armed forces that could field equipment like Hunters and Canberra’s. Stormont...

Oh boy, this is not going to end well...

At the very least you need to take Brezhnev out of the equation. It would also help if Stalin hadn’t purged the Red Army so that if Barbarossa still happens the chances are that it fails more quickly so that the Soviets don’t suffer the appalling losses they didn’t IOTL.

Given that Douglas and many of the Social Credit movements inspired by him were anti-Semitic could this result in greater sympathy for Nazism in the 1930’s and possibly seeing greater opposition to rearmament?

One of my favourite BL stories is that junior BL executives who were assigned an Allegro as their company car always tried to get a Belgian built model as they were more reliable than those made at Longbridge o_O

I’ve often thought the best way to do this is to have the Wehrmacht mount a better defence in the east after Stalingrad and not suffer the catastrophes of Kursk and Bagration, the latter quite literally tore the guts out of the Ostfront. A slower advance by the Red Army could mean the WAllies...

Tu-22 Blinder. Appalling ergonomics, poor cockpit visibility, unresponsive controls and downward firing ejection seats useless in the all too common chance of a landing accident. It’s accident rate was so bad Soviet crew refused to fly it.

In fairness the Mail wasn’t the rabid tabloid we know today in 1970, it was still a broadsheet struggling to stay afloat against the Daily Express. Even The Sun wasn’t as extreme in its editorial stance back then.

I think the issue with the Lightning was that it only escaped the Sandys Axe because it was intended to serve as “an interim aircraft” providing point defence to the V Bomber bases until the new generation of SAM’s became available. Therefore further development wasn’t foreseen and when the need...

A Cat of a Different Colour, China after a Mao by Rediv https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-cat-of-a-different-color-china-after-mao.153688/ Also 03771’s epic alternate 1960’s All Along the Watchtower, sadly it looks like he’s deleted all the content but this was a superb dystopia...

In relation to the carriers could the Hood, or one or two of her cancelled sisters have been converted to a carrier like Lexington and Saratoga were?

To prevent Chappaquiddick simply have Kennedy accept his invite to attend the launch of Apollo 11 and then spend a few days afterwards in Florida. NASA’s then head of PR Julian Scheer said he’d declined because he thought it was “Nixon’s Party.” There was a previous thread on this in which...

I seem to remember a previous thread on this in which someone suggested that if they’d managed to destroy the German railway system, there’d have been a full on famine in 1945 as the harvest wouldn’t have been able to reach the cities.

It was but by the time it entered service the Sea Vixen had the interceptor role so despite its “F” designation, the Scimitar served in the strike role. AFAIK the only other weapon it was cleared to carry apart from Bullpup and iron bombs was the Red Beard tactical nuke.

I once did some brainstorming about Eden leading the Tories in the 1945 GE with a more effective campaign that kept Labour’s majority to about 40. Atlee became more cautious in office, leading him to back Herbert Morrison’s model of the NHS, which in turn results in Bevan resigning from the...

Yeah the Civil War is avoided and Dev probably doesn’t become the hate figure he is for Unionists IOTL. Anti-Treaty republicanism will still exist but will be smaller as it won’t have a figurehead. It probably becomes a more Northern based movement far earlier than it didnt IOTL.

I’m not sure this could happen due to the influence of the Catholic Church. The Irish Left struggled to make much headway until the mid 1980’s. It probably would take a very severe economic crisis or some other kind of societal breakdown for it to occur.

I came across this in the Alternate Universe forum of Shipbucket recently, “Hawker P.1126 Hurricane II,” don’t know how realistic a design it is but it looks an impressive machine!

Consider me subscribed for that already! Cevert would have been world champion at least once had he lived, Stewart said about how he’d been “an obedient teammate” all through 1973. That’s code for “He could have passed me whenever he wanted!”