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  1. WI: Activision buys Rare?

    People often ask 'what if Nintendo had bought Rare instead of Microsoft?' and while I think it's an interesting topic, I felt like going for a bit of a different scenario besides the two people always talk about, Nintendo making Rare a subsidiary and what actually happened. Apparently...

  2. AHC: Japanese racial equality clause passed at the Versailles conference

    It's fairly well recorded that the Japanese government pushed for a racial equality clause at the Versailles conference and the other Allies blocked it because white supremacism. Is there any way they or the League of Nations might've accepted it, and what impact would it have? (The immediate...

  3. DBWI: Nixon wins in 1968

    People talk a lot about about what if Nixon had won in 1960, but I feel like proposing the other scenario people seem to discuss less- what if he won in 1968? I know it sounds a bit far-fetched, but I feel like if the leaks about him sabotaging the peace talks had never happened, given how...

  4. Henry IX and his Brother

    I'm not exactly sure where this would go (or if it's been done), but it's an idea that's been in my mind for a while that I'd love to hear people's takes on. So basically, Henry FitzRoy survives to adulthood, and instead of Mary Catherine of Aragon has a male son. What happens?

  5. AHC: Algeria as South Africa and vice versa

    This is an idea I've had floating around in my head. Basically what I mean is, is there any way South Africa could have ended up tearing down its minority rule system through war and the expulsion of colonists and become an authoritarian state, and that Algeria could have transitioned from...

  6. WI the Swiss Confederacy is never formed/doesn't survive?

    This might be an idea that's been floated before, but what might have happened if Switzerland as we know it today had not held together (either the Confederacy is never founded or it collapses due to infighting between the cantons)? Would the different cantons be absorbed into neighbouring...

  7. One Last Throw Of The Dice: WI Doctor Who was commissioned for one more season in 1990?
    Threadmarks: Part One: That's It, I've Been Renewed

    (OK, so this is something a bit different for me since most of my posts have been about political ATLs, but some interesting recent threads like Phil won't leave his room and Doctor in Distress have inspired me to have a go at a Doctor Who ATL. It's not based on a huge change, but it was one I...

  8. WI Japan had a multi-party system?

    Apologies if a discussion like this has been done before, but how could Japan have developed a solid two-party or multi-party system where either the LDP doesn't assert the dominant position it has in OTL or doesn't ever get formed? And what significant impact would this have on the country...

  9. Vote for your country- WI Nigel Farage died in 2010?

    At 8am on the 6th May 2010, the day of that year's British general election, Nigel Farage, MEP for the minor Eurosceptic party UKIP (the UK Independence Party), set out for his last and arguably most ambitious piece of campaigning. Assisted by a stunt pilot, Justin Adams, he flew over the fields...

  10. The Ultimate Lib Dem U-Turn

    "This could be the first time in a generation that a heel turn by a party is anything other than asking for trouble. The Liberal Democrats are still languishing in the polls, and many who voted for them are disillusioned. But having been strange bedfellows with the Tories, and seeing the harm...

  11. President Marshall?

    I was thinking about something. In 1919, after Wilson's stroke, suppose figures in Congress had been able to persuade Marshall to replace him as President (possibly by him being less reluctant, or by him trusting the sources that told him how bad a state Wilson was in). How could this have...

  12. House of Commons under the Wyoming Rule

    I was thinking a little about the Wyoming Rule, a proposal for reapportionment of US Congressional districts. The sum required would be to calculate the total electorate divided by the smallest possible unit to get the total number of constituencies, then round that number to the nearest whole...

  13. A Tory government in 1929-31

    Something I've been curious about for a while is what might have happened if Stanley Baldwin had secured enough seats in 1929 to return to government. It seems somewhat feasible given that the Conservatives won a plurality of the vote ahead of Labour. Fundamentally, I have two questions...

  14. WI: Rockefeller got the Republican nomination in 1964?

    I know this has probably been discussed before, but if Rockefeller had managed to beat Goldwater for the Republican nomination (probably the most obvious POD I can think of is him not marrying Happy), how would it have changed the 1964 election and the future of American politics?

  15. WI: Brown calls an election in 2007

    Probably been done before, but it's an intriguing concept to me. What if Gordon Brown had called a snap election in 2007 to seek a personal mandate? Could he have held on on the back of the Brown bounce? Would there have been a coalition of some kind? Any thoughts are welcome.

  16. US Congressional Constituencies

    Suppose the US House of Representatives elected Members to represent Congressional Districts which were named for the areas they cover (a la UK constituencies or Canadian ridings) instead of being numbered? Anyone interested in helping make some maps of them? (Obviously this doesn't really...

  17. prime-minister's boundary review

    So I've been using the Boundary Assistant Plan Builder to create a possible near-future UK constituency map. I'm starting by uploading the full map, and future posts will focus in on each county. CONTEXTUAL EVENTS: Scotland has left the United Kingdom. The 600-seat review has been rejected a...

  18. Tory Majority in 1929

    What PoD would be needed to give the Tories an overall majority in 1929, and what would have followed?

  19. The Great Reform Act loses its second reading

    Idk if this is already a thread, but what if the Great Reform Act had been defeated in 1831 on its second reading (since it passed by just one vote in OTL)?

  20. UK Boundary Review Constituencies

    I'm currently working on making a map of the 2012 Boundary Commission proposals to reduce the UK House of Commons to 600 seats, since there isn't currently one which can be easily edited etc. It's taking a while to make, so I'm uploading the individual counties one by one. And where better to...
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