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I’ve often wondered how this guy would have fared in the more liberal climate of the mid 1960’s onwards. Even in the 50’s he was calling the British Empire “evil!”[/URL]

It obviously depends on a lot of things but ITTL Brazil is wealthier, less unequal and doesn’t have the levels of corruption of OTL then there could be stronger enforcement of environmental laws. Also if the favelas don’t exist or are much less extensive then there won’t be a large group of...

You need to completely change the culture of British politicians and business leaders of this time. In Empire of the Clouds there’s a mention of the board of Bristol aircraft having 2 hour lunch breaks every day, British firms were so used to getting big returns from minimal investment due to...

Nope, Nationalists fundamentally disagree with the concept of a ”Northern Ireland,” independent or not. The idea is only supported by fringe elements of Loyalists and has never had any mainstream support. Closest it arguably came to happening was in the final days of Stormont when Bill Craig...

If Brown had called an election just after the conference season then wouldn’t this have become public close to polling day? IIRC Labour’s OTL polling took a significant hit from it, imagine if it had happened in the final days of an election campaign.

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Have more bulldozer tanks to break through the hedges in the bocage.

Certainly France managed to maintain a CTOL carrier fleet right to the present day despite having a similar sized economy. The big difference is that they managed their economy better so there wasn’t the same cycle of Stop-Go that impacted in planning. To prevent this you need to have a complete...

This, sadly abandoned, TL featured a China run by the Gang of Four post Mao, I suspect it was heading towards a similar outcome to post Soviet Russia

Problem is even if This guy dies before he discovers it, the chances are someone else hits upon it. The toxic effects of lead were well known about at the time but GM and Ethyl managed to smother the truth about it becoming known for decades.

Wow that picture of Lula! :eek:

Great start to this, looking forward to the next instalments!

The French in particular are notorious for only paying lip service to EU procurement directives. Even if the bid from Renault or PSA is the highest they’ll get the contract. In contrast Whitehall implements rules to the nth degree and the Treasury’s obsession with cost control means it has...

Many people just assume that a KMT China will simply be a giant version of OTL’s Taiwan, it would probably be a richer, more authoritarian India. Tibet would probably be better off as Chiang would likely have offered the Dalai Lama some kind of deal in which his religious authority was...

I do agree that the OTL strategy of FWD Austin’s and RWD Morris’ was the right plan. The problem was the terrible execution with things like the Maxi’s awful gearchange, something which should have been sorted out in development. And while it’s clear that BL should have gone for hatchbacks I...

I think the big tragedy of BL is that Leyland Motors could have been a genuine British version of Daimler Benz had Donald Stokes refused the merger. By the late 60’s Triumph and Rover were selling well and the truck and bus business was very strong. Under BL they were all starved of investment...

Yeah South Africa getting a Majestic Class light carrier as the RN shrinks post war is the most likely scenario. A bit more left field, Egypt never makes peace with Israel and develops a carrier to prevent a repeat of the Six Day War? The only other plausible candidate I can think of is...

I remember reading an interview with one of the student leaders many years ago, he said when they heard that a local factory was on strike they went there to help the strikers “smash the machine.” They were promptly beaten up by the strikers who told them they’d need the machines after they got...

Didn’t Roddenberry have an idea for them to go back to Dallas 1963 and Spock shot JFK from the Grassy Knoll?

No Korean War has big implications for Japan’s economic boom, apparently the war contracts provided a massive stimulus to its economy. I read once on here that apparently Toyota was on the brink of bankruptcy in 1950 but was saved by war contracts. Japan will still rise into a major economy ITTL...