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Let's apply some hand waving and say the SNP don't get a majority in the 2011 Holyrood elections, they're unable to hold the referendum and don't have the resulting surge in support. How would this effect the 2015 general election?

Just what the title says is there anyway to keep Bangladesh as a part of Pakistan?

IOTL Newfoundland voted 52.3 - 47.7 in favour of of joining Canada but what if through some hand waving the vote ends in a similar margin of victory for responsible government. What would the effect of an independent Newfoundland be on history and how would Canada and Newfoundland develop?

What would the effects have been if Labour never supported the creation of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly?

With a POD after WWII how can both the Labour and Conservative parties be involved in a coalition government at Westminster. Preferably without there being a nuclear war.

Is there any plausible way to get by 2013 a world with a Hawaiian Independence Movement that has about as much popular support in Hawaii as the SNP have in Scotland?

These islands off the coast of Germany were controlled by the British from 1814 till 1890 when they were given to Germany in return for Zanzibar. Is there any way the archipelago could remain British until the present day and what would the effect be on Anglo German relations?

In a world where for whatever reason America never goes to war with Spain how does Spain and it's colonies develop.

Yemen was in OTL divided until 1990 between the Yemen Arab Republic (North) and the People Democratic Republic of Yemen (South). So your challenge is to find a way to keep them divided until the modern day and what effect this would have on the world?

How could the Ottoman Empire have avoided signing the Ottoman German Alliance (or simply refuse to follow it) and remained neutral during World War 1? Also what would the effect be on the course of the war? My exhaustive research (aka browsing Wikipedia) has found that Sultan Mehmed V was...

Following the collapse of the USSR numerous nations found themselves in control of it's nuclear arsenal Belarus (81), Kazakhstan (1400) and Ukraine (5000) so what if the nations didn't return the weapons to Russia?

So lets say the Ethiopian civil war goes a lot worse than OTL and several higher ups in the Derg and military are killed including Mengistu Haile Mariam due to this the Soviets view backing the very unstable Ethiopia as a bad idea and stick with their Somali allies all this results in a far...

Simply question if for some unspecified reason WW2 did not occur what would happen to the European colonial empires. In particular I'm looking for what would happen to smaller countries like Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgiums colonies.

I am currently planning a story idea set in a world based on that Finnish map where Germany wins WW2 through having a better leader and having Japan find the oil in Manchuria and staying neutral keeping America out of the war. So I ask what would British politics look like in this world my own...

Well everybody else is doing it. So what happens to Scotland in your timelines?

With a POD after the Japanese surrender keep China divided into at least 3 nations

Can anyone get Tibet to stay independent under the Dali Lama it doesn't have to control all the territory that Tibet used to my personal idea was that the civil war in China last longer maybe ending in a north south situation or with the PRC winning but slower and with heavier casualties than...

Not quite sure if this is classified as alternate history but it's set in the 50th century or there abouts so anyway. Mortal Engines is a book by Philip Reeve set in the far future after a terrible war between the American Empire and Greater China which destroyed Central America and turned the...