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  1. The Second Labour Government - 1929 - 193-?

    Some background first. The second UK Labour government (1929-31) was elected at a difficult time - it was a minority government (supported by the Liberal party), and spent much of its time in office grappling with the economic issues stemming from the Great Depression. Yes, most of my links in...

  2. Buckingham Houses of Parliament?

    I was watching a TV show earlier which mentioned the 1834 fire in the Houses of Parliament, which destroyed much of the existing interior (though the roof was saved due to heroic work by firefighters). As we know, they were eventually re-fitted/re-built. However, it was mentioned that the king...

  3. REAL Arms Limitation?

    It occurred to me recently that, although there have been limitations on the production and/or deployment of various types of weapons - MRBMs, biological and chemical weapons - there never seems to have been any serious attempt at a reduction in weaponry and armies overall. Yes, the Versailles...

  4. The SDP - a realistic alternative?

    (Please note, I don't know if this has been done before, I did a search and couldn't find any threads about it) In the early 1980s, the new Social Democratic Party (or SDP) seemed to be a realistic, exciting alternative to the extremes of Thatcherism and the Labour left - a new, more...

  5. Could one of the V-bombers have become a British B-52?

    I'm intrigued by the fact that, of the the different British V-bombers, the last remaining examples were decommissioned in the early 1980s (after their use in anger during the Falklands). From introduction to final retirement, the service life of the entire fleet was about 30 years. On the...

  6. USSR does a China!

    You heard! Sometimes proposed as a way for the Soviet Union to survive: instead of politically liberalising - and then collapsing - it 'does a China', and economically liberalises,while keeping politics much the same. This appears to have worked OK in OTL China, hence the 'doing a China.' I...

  7. WI the death penalty (in Britain) never abolished?

    Inspired loosely by this thread: The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. What I want to know is, is there a plausible way this could not happen, or (maybe more plausibly) not happen until a lot later? Also, could it have been re-introduced at some point? A private...

  8. Another N00BWI: How could the USSR had won the Cold War?

    (OOC: Inspired by this thread. Basically, pretend you're an utter n00b and fool, of the "Sealion was plausible, and the Nazis had secret moon bases" type). Well? It shouldn't be too difficult - after all, they had all those cool tanks. They could have just rolled right over Europe! (OOC: That...

  9. What if the Space Shuttle Columbia had not broken up on re-entry?

    (As requested by comments on a trolling thread) As the title asks, what if the Columbia had not broken up on re-entry? (I am going to say, specifically, that this is because the foam insulation did not break off, rather than the Shuttle simply making it back through the atmosphere anyway. That...

  10. The Channel Tunnel: opening 1895!

    Intrigued by an episode of the BBC programme Coast - a series about, appropriately enough, Britain's coastline and its history - I wanted to propose the following scenario. A tunnel is built under the English Channel (or la Manche, if you wish), linking Britain and France. So what? The point...

  11. How can we make Winston Churchill a champion of the workers?

    Winston Churchill - champion of the workers?!? Sounds absurd I know, but I was taking a look at this over on changingthetimes, and came across the following passage (near the bottom on the page) from a meeting of the Liberal Cabinet in 1924:But that was nothing as to my amazement when Winston...
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