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Oh bloody hell Ed. That was a lot darker than I expected, and a nice take on the 'Soviet Occupation' trope - shades of Tsar Simon, I rather think. As ever, a delight to have you back, and always impressive how you manage to hint at so much happening behind the scenes. Bravo!

Historically, and as Nofix notes - I suppose that you could have had Jan Smuts take over on an interim basis if Churchill and Eden both got shot down over Tehran. Today? I don't think that there's any deep-set horror or revulsion at the idea of a Commonwealth-born Premier, but given how soon...

That's irrelevant, sadly, Owen would be unlikely to do this under any circumstances short of the Liberals basically abolishing themselves and adopting Owenite stances on everything - but this would not happen given how much stronger the Liberal grassroots were in contrast with the SDP activists...

Dear All, Just a note to reassure you that 'Better Drunk' is certainly not dead. However, I've been in a very busy period job wise and with the election ramping up, I don't expect to have much free time between now and mid-May. Rest assured that I have a good idea of where this is going...

A citizen of Barnsley weighing in.

Wee Dougie? Not a chance in hell for the Leadership (he was David Miliband's campaign manager - the start of a long and miserable string of defeats...) - there's not much more chance of him going for the Deputy Leadership either, he wouldn't win, and he wouldn't be in a position to demand a...

I think that this was briefly a thing after the single-mother raised postman was defeated by the public-school educated scion of the the aristocracy. It was nonsense of course, but I certainly recall Harman getting some admiring glances from the soft-left, but mainly because she did her best as...

True - but I think you're underestimating Harman's grassroots support - which was present in a way that just didn't exist for Balls and Burnham. She won the Deputy leadership for a reason and - though the memory is a bit fuzzy now - I do recall her campaign in 2007 playing a lot on her notional...

She'd almost certainly have had to resign as Deputy (there's nothing explicit about it in the Rulebook - but not doing so wouldn't have been The Done Thing) which would, as you say, have ended up causing another election. I don't think Harman would have been annihilated in the contest, I...

I've realised that you've turned me into Andrew Neil. Fuck You. Don't vote for this, it's shit.

Excellent! :D Meadow's ASB ending will - I assure you - be even better.

[Eighties Game Show Music Plays] Audience: [APPLAUSE] Bruce Forsyth (for it is he): Hello! How wonderful! It's nice to see you! To see you... Audience: Nice! BF: And tonight's the night that you "Play Your Turtledoves Right!" - we've got our cards, and all we need now are our contestants...

With thanks to the estate of Professor Ralph Miliband (From: "The Encyclopaedia of Video Games - Sixth Edition" (Ed. Jason McCartney), Paragon, 2015) "SPYCATCHER: The Hunt For Harold Wilson" is a 1979 Atari video game based on the 1977 20th Century Fox film of the same name, itself based on...

It's under 'Flash Timeline' (which is probably a better fit for it!) - worry not! As ever, many thanks to Glen for being so on top of things - it is very much appreciated.

A little something from "And All's Right With The World" that I knocked up.

Thande - this continues to delight in every way - bravo! I don't see Blair losing in 1997 though, I mean, the only person who could possibly beat him would have to be a down-to-earth, aspirational working-class urban Tory, ideally with some past experience as a "safe pair of hands" at the...

Really looking forward to this Tom me old mucker (and apologies to all of you who have had this delayed, entirely my own fault!) I've got an inkling as to who some of the Prime Ministers are going to be, but certainly not all of them, nor what order they are going to come in. Will be...

Firstly, many thanks for all of your very kind and encouraging words. It is very gratifying to have the opportunity of doing a "proper" timeline after the emotional roller-coaster of Lavender. I mainly decided to do this because I realised how many of the figures in 'Lavender' were just...

I didn't, I don't think? Anyway - you had five abstentions in the first round in OTL, and two in the second round. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the people who stayed out of the balloting did the same ITTL.

Part One ‘A contest between a drunk and a crook’ - Tony Crosland __________________________________________________ (From ‘A Life At The Centre’ by Roy Jenkins, Palgrave, 1987) “I put the world to rights with Hugh in mid-November, after he invited Jennifer and I to Frognal Gardens...