The most strange TL idea came to me in a dream! The Two Mosleys!

What if Lady Mosley had had identical twins in 1896? One of which was the right-wing Fascist we love to hate, and the other the Progressive left-wing leader so beloved of AH.com left-wing timelines?

I present to you the 'Two Mosleys!! - the Hitchens' of the 30's'
unled1at.jpg

An awkward photo shows the two brothers posing together. Such was the intense rivalry between the two feuding brothers that they rarely met, even at family occasions. As Harold Nicolson noted in his diary, 'the existence of one is a constant annoyance to the career of the other. The one thing they have in common was that they can't bare people laughing at their schism.'

To be completed - some time or other.........
 
But which twin is evil?:D

Yes, is it the old party sell-out funded by the little Jew shopkeepers who offers nothing but talk or the reactionary Jingoistic yahoo who serves the interest of high finance and big business against the interests of the British people?

This also raises the question, what are their names? They can't both be Oswald.
 
EdT's Red Baronet was Sir Tonman Mosley, which is pretty awesome. Righty can still be Oswald.

Maybe Osric for the lefty?
 
Yes, is it the old party sell-out funded by the little Jew shopkeepers who offers nothing but talk or the reactionary Jingoistic yahoo who serves the interest of high finance and big business against the interests of the British people?

This also raises the question, what are their names? They can't both be Oswald.
In social circles he was called Tom, so you could have Thomas and Oswald.
 
Haha, very interesting idea. The question is, by splitting the real man how do they differ? Is it a purely ideological thing, with them both being very similar in persona (one of the funnier things about the Hitchens rivalry) or do they take different traits from OTL?
 
Haha, very interesting idea. The question is, by splitting the real man how do they differ? Is it a purely ideological thing, with them both being very similar in persona (one of the funnier things about the Hitchens rivalry) or do they take different traits from OTL?

The correct answer is in bold, I think.

Don't now how far I'll go with this, after all it was a dream.... But the other project I've got in line after I finish the sci-fi nonsense below is probably not going to very easy, so this might be good. Especially since I'm writing an extended essay on whether or not the BUF was on the left or right of the political spectrum, meaning I'll be officially allowed to blend my real research with research for this TL.

As for a name, I'd already thought of Tom but then the other would lose their nickname, Osric sounds cool. Nice and Anglo-Saxon.
 
Last edited:
Another thing, how far would the lol factor damage the career of both? Will it be largely ignored (like with GK Chesterson's unfortunate Fascist cousin AK Chesterson, who sometimes got invited to the wrong parties but little else :p), make them a joke (like the Mitford's)?
 
Top