Recent content by AndyC

Just to add that this series is more a deep-dive than a review. I won't be giving a precis or review of the various episodes; it's a discussion of elements that sprang out to me as worth talking about.

Oh, and you may have noticed that I've said nothing about bats in wet markets and whether or not an outbreak of a respiratory disease occurs in China on a similar schedule to OTL. You could well argue that it wouldn't, due to butterflies. Or you could wonder what would happen if February-March...

I could expand on it all a bit, but that could take a post longer than most articles. Key bits, though: No 1922 election; it runs to 1923 as originally planned (as there was no need to collapse the Coalition when they decided not to do Coupon 2: Lloyd-George Boogaloo, because they'd not...

That’s very sweet. (and nice to see Tony‘s and Mary’s parents got together :) ) Merry Christmas all!

Reading Chaikin’s history next to Baxter’s novel gives a heck of a pointer as to places where Baxter paid homage to actual poorly known events and incidents.

Well, having lived in both villages and larger towns (and for a while in London), I'd say that generally village-sized communities are more prone to concerns over social signalling and consequences than larger communities

To be honest, I've long felt the likes system contributes to pile-ons and social signalling in Chat. I've felt the draw of it myself, pretty strongly. I'm not convinced it's of much use in Chat (it often just indicates people lining up behind someone in an argument, which is a bit...

If you want, I'll tell you, but in a spoiler just in case people want the surprise:

The 1923 election was pretty messy in OTL, to be fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election And a shedload of those seats were pretty knife-edge, anyway. It wouldn't take much to shift the 1923 election significantly - it'd be an ideal PoD for many political...

There is a Part 2 and a Part 3 to come, so there should be plenty to get teeth into (and argue about, because naturally, I've had to make some choices)

That's the one. 211 constituencies in urban areas; AV in the rural ones. The batting back and forth over it, the compromises, and changes, and eventual death of it by a thousand cuts in early 1918... it was really involved. The thing tat surprised me was how cross-party the arguments were - you...

Comment on @Pete U 's article on the Olympics here.

Bear in mind as well that whilst 45m is the average depth, the project difficulty will also be affected by the greatest depth. Which, depending on the route they take (because they won't know the underwater topography in depth) could be as much as 70m+. From...

Comment on @David Flin 's review here.

Please discuss Tim Venning's article on the Battle of Bosworth (Part 1) here.