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I'm just watching the film on TV right now, originally Mel Brooks wanted Pryor to play Bart but Warner Bros said no because of concerns over his drug use. But what if Brooks had stuck to his guns (no pun intended ;) ) and Pryor got the part. As good as Cleavon Little was how differently could...

They certainly would have had no option but to nationalise it given the risk that its implosion might have caused further contagion in the financial system. However I don't think it would have affected the outcome of the 2010 GE, much of the anger over the bailouts had subsidied by then and...

:D A "Potemkin Engine" very good!

Personally I've always thought this was what the RN should have done post war, as the OP mentions the rebuilds of the Centaurs and Victorious were hugely expensive and resulted in carriers which quickly became unsuited to the larger jets that entered service in the late 1950's. The small size of...

If Rudd hadn't launched his second coup on Gillard, then could he have succeeded her as Labor leader post election, or was he too badly damaged by previous events?

Looks interesting, please keep going!

Malta had a referendum on integrating with the UK in 1956, although there was a Yes vote it was boycotted by the National Party over a dispute about Italian language rights and the result was judged to be unrepresentative. Have it carried then places like Gibraltar, some of the Caribbean Islands...

Just caught up with this, really excellent work! It just proves how a few little changes could have had big implications in 1940 and that Germany's spectacular victories were far from inevitable. Even if the Germans win this Campaign the rest of the War is going to be very different.

Thinking some more about the OP and especially The Gulf War, Thatcher was of the opinion that Saddam should have been toppled but at the time Bush was listening more to the Saudis who wanted to keep him there as a buffer against Iran. So I don't think the outcome of the war would have been any...

If the PoD is Thatcher defeating Heseltine in the first round then I think there are major butterflies for the Tories themselves. You can see among parts of the Tory Right and in UKIP that there's practically a Dolchstosslegende that if Thatcher hadn't been ousted she would have vetoed...

*stands to attention and salutes* ;) Nice touch! As outdated as they were at the end I'm sorry to see them go, still a really cool looking plane and the last British jetliner. Good updates, so instead of going for a ROBOT style "Big Bang" devaluation, Butler is hoping to gradually reduce...

Was there a Libyan Embassy in London in 1988? Hadn't relations been broken after the murder of WPC Fletcher?

Very appropriate Geon!

Wow that was amazing! I did suggest after the update of Hitler entombing himself that if the Allies found the vault quickly after the end of the War then they should use it as the site of the first nuke test, but as said above by this time the use of nuclear weapons for such a purpose is...

Oh Man, real danger of Mississippi becoming a giant Northern Ireland and TTL's Watergate is about to break. Fantastic work as ever, can't wait to see how this develops!

Nope, increasingly outdated and probably near the end of their fatigue lives, and that's even without the bad publicity after the Afghan disaster.

I don't think the P-8 programme had started when Britain chose MRA4, IIRC the alternative was upgraded Orions. Airbus was promoting an A319 MPA about a decade ago and certainly from a perspective of UK jobs that might have been a better option than Poseidon but it seems to have been dropped for...