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    Better To Do The Wrong Thing (An Ulster TL)

    "He's coming!" With that, the assembled press hurriedly set up their equipment and got their writing utensils at the ready. All attention in the Central Hall was directed towards the grand marble staircase. Gazing down at them were two sets of eyes. Firstly the lifeless eyes of The 1st Viscount...
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    AH Vignette: The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

    --- I don't mean to be alarmist... CHARLIE HAUGHEY - Daily Telegraph, 16th April 1986 I don't mean to be alarmist, though I feel this needs to be said. This country is hurtling towards oblivion on a trajectory that I fear we will not be able to remove ourselves from. As a member of the New...
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    TLIAM: Killing Home Rule with Kindness

    "[This government's strategy on Ireland is to] Kill Home Rule with Kindness." -Arthur Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the introduction of the 1898 Local Government Act “Our opposition to this Bill shall not be guided by the normal constitutional rules. There are stronger things than...
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    TLIAPOT: The Road to Babylon

    Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!” Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you According to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them...
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    AH Vignette: Patience is a Virtue

    "Two minutes Mr President." The President nodded his head in acknowledgement as he looked straight into the large camera several feet in front of him. His hands shook and trembled as he shuffled the pages which had his speech printed on them. The camera was a dark shade of black, an irony...
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    AH Vignette: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

    Life in the Hermit Kingdom Time Magazine, 14th October, 1982 “ONE NATION, ONE PARTY, ONE LANGUAGE - UNDER GOD” booms the sizable posters which plaster much of the outside of the Temple of Peace and Health, which has been abandoned for several years. The posters are however much more of a recent...
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    Don Hitchens: A British Political Mini TL

    --- Don Hitchens: The Ingenious Gentleman Mr. Hitchens of Oxfordshire --- Oh. Yes? Another one? What do you mean? Another British TL from you - what is this, you must be into the double figures now. Umm... Yes...? *Sigh* Right so what is this one? A TLIAPOT. Yes I can see that - does...
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    AHC: British 'Southern Strategy'

    Basically the challenge is for something similar to the supposed 'Southern Strategy' of the Nixon campaign in 1968 and the GOP to appeal to traditional Democratic voters in the South, to occur in the United Kingdom - with the Tories (hypothetically) aiming to appeal to traditional Labour voters...
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    AH Vignette: All the Young Dudes

    --- Click. Flash. Click. Flash. Click. Flash. The heavy door of Number 10 Downing Street closed on the commotion of the assembled press and general chitter chatter across the street from the most photographed door in the United Kingdom. From inside the building Norman could hear the likes...
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    A New Jerusalem: A British Election Timeline

    --- "The crucial question of this Election, on which every elector must make up his or her mind, is this: What kind of society do you want? We know the kind of society we want. We want a society of free men and women - free from poverty, free from fear, able to develop to the full their...
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    AHC: British Red Scare

    Your challenge is to have a British Red Scare in the 1970's with a PoD no later than 1960. It can be on a greater or lesser scale than the US red scares; but it still has to be a 'red scare' nonetheless.
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    TLIAPOT: Blinded by the Light

    "Blinded by the light. Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light. Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night." -Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Blinded by the Light --- Oh - look what the cat dragged in. Uhh... Hi...? It's you again. Yes it is...? Have you...
  13. Gonzo

    TLIAPOT: Follow the Money: Fear and Loathing in Mecham's America

    *Thanks to SargentHawk for the graphic*
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    AHC: Worse Red Scare

    Your challenge is to make the worst possible/a worse Red Scare in the United States any time during the Cold War.
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    Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues: An Alternate 1984 US Presidential Election

    Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues -Congressman Lawrence P. "Larry" McDonald (D-GA), announcing his entry into the 1984 Democratic Presidential Primaries- Okay, so who are you? Hi, I'm Gonzo; I co-write No Southern Strategy: The Political Ramifications of an Alternate 1964 Election...
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    President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    A thread for results and graphics from the President Elect 1988 game. http://playdosgamesonline.com/president-elect-1988-edition.html
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    Slouching Towards Gomorrah (An Alternate Cold War)

    "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" - W. B. Yeats US Occupation Zone, Tsingtao, New Chinese Republic March, 1993 01:00AM (UTC+08:00) The sector was, for this time of night rather active with bars and shops still open at this...
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    AH Vignette: Down to the Wire

    'We can now call the state of Florida for...' As the controversial Democratic President’s second elected term came to a close the nation watched to see who would throw their hat into the ring. Many felt that the Republicans could have their man in the form of the widely respected, popular...
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    AHC: Get DC to vote Republican

    As the OP says - get Washington D.C. (home to the 3 bluest electoral votes) to vote for a Republican Presidential nominee at a Presidential election from 1964 onwards. Bonus points if it is 1964, not a landslide election and if it is not down to vote splitting.
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