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Do you mean Edward VIII? (Fun list btw)

Popping out of internal exile to say this is really good actually.

Oswald Mosley as an alt Macmillan in a TL where he doesn’t go totally off the rails in the interwar period and spends the 30s and 40s as a Tory radical advocating radical Keynesian policies, becomes PM some time in the 1950s, only to go off the rails then and nuke Cairo during alt-Suez or something.

These are really valid points, and I’m sort of loathe to rehash that debate, but I also think we should recognise that not all criticism is bad criticism, and a lot of the critiques I received in this thread’s spiritual successor made me a much better writer than I was four years ago - I’m sure...

Also one of the major through lines of Thermidorian to Napoleonic diplomacy was that Prussia should be moved East at the expense of Russia, not West, and that Western Germany should be reorganised into one or two medium sized pro-French states to balance the former HRE and buffer France against...

To add to this, this idea that King George was going to happen is really just based on a quite fallacious understanding of how the Founders used the term ‘monarchy’. When a lot of them write about ‘monarchy’ (after their turn away from supporting a Dominion-esque setup with Britain to republic...

To add to this, FH TLs are as much about the story as they are about plausibility, particularly when they come in PM list form. It seems strange to be quibbling about the plausibility of AOC’s rise without Trump in literally a President MyPillow list (which is, btw, very good) because, well, the...

Yeah this is true - I more meant would it contribute to the general image of “This man says he’s a moderate Gaitskellite but really he’s a LOONY LEFTY”.

This is a little inside baseball/needlessly esoteric, but from what I remember of the history of Isis (whose sister publication I edited, for my sins, and whose archives I am fairly familiar with) there was a big scandal in the late 50s about the magazine leaking state secrets, I wonder if that...

Me: Mum can we get a Michael Bloomberg Mayor of London TL? Mum: We have a Michael Bloomberg Mayor of London TL at home The Michael Bloomberg Mayor of London TL we have at home: Political Career of Boris Johnson 2001-2008: Conservative Member of Parliament for Henley 2001 General Election def...

Thanks lads, glad it’s tickled people a bit! FWIW I think Japhy is right that either Illuminati mania or anti-Masonry is the better parallel, but I came up with the joke first and story second. I think there’s certainly terrain for a more serious version of the idea though.

One senses an oncoming storm, perhaps 1825-1828: Andrew Jackson (Republican) 1824 (with John C. Calhoun) def. John Q. Adams (Republican), William H. Crawford (Republican), Henry Clay (Republican) 1828-1829: Andrew Jackson (Democratic) The narrow victory of Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election...

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I agree that this is right in general of the 18th-century (especially in the United States) but I’m not sure it actually has much bearing on the specific system proposed in question. Sieyès, as you doubtless know, was the premier anti-Estate theorist of the age, particularly opposed to voting...

Yes, the Imperial constitution in particular is similarly arcane since it’s essentially an evolution of the Consulate which is in turn an adapted version of this Sieyèsian plan (particularly wrt to the three chambers which was one of his long-term fantasies) - and as you say, in the Consulate...

Politics of the French Republic, 1865 Socialist Party The 'Party of the System', supported by the managerial middle class, high finance, and the (non-radical) urban proletariat, the party are the supporters of the current constitution and comprise the bulk of the meritocratic state bureaucracy...

Oh fuck that’s clever.

Big fan of this, and surprised it hasn't got more commentary. Is the Rowling party's name meant to mean something as an acronym? If not its a delightful clunky single-issue party name.

Sure - I’m happy to answer questions on this all day to be honest, talking about Sieyès is a good distraction from actually having to write about the man. I’ve honestly never been quite sure why Joubert was the choice other than personal amity, especially since Sieyès had already been...