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Perhaps a Chinese-inspired spectrum based on libertarian, 'naturalist' Daoism and hierarchal, legalist Confucianism?

The problem of a stronger Socialist Party under Asanuma causing even more American interfering could lead to a more competative system down the line, albeit with cost. Here's my back of a fag packet scenario: Say you have Asanuma leading a growing 'red wave' of popular support for the JSP in...

Andrei Zhdanov cutting out his drinking and living past 1948 seems the best bet. He controlled the Soviet propaganda machine, recieved genuine affection from Stalin and was widely seen as his would-be successor. He'd have a legitimate base and the old man's endorsement. However this also makes...

Really enjoyed that. Like you say probably not very likely but would love to see it expanded on.

The idea he was going rightward is an invention by certain anti-communists who understood the power of his work but didn't like the shades of (supposed) grey that came with a left-wing anti-Stalinist. As early as the 1950s his positions were being fudged. An American edition of his works quoted...

If things get going in the 1930s and 1940s, Tom Wintringham and his hopes of building the *Home Guard into a Peoples Militia would be worth looking into. For a little stub I wrote I actually imagined him as an ersatz Tito in a "Nazis conquer Britain, they eventually pull out due to partisans and...

I've had an idea swirling around in my brain ever since participating in @Techdread's thread about a Benn Government. It led me to write a fairly extensive outline of possible policies and events but I basically handwaved Benn's rise to Labour Leader and then Prime Minister, as I see it as...

I think D'Annunzio leading a fascist regime could really lean into Futurism. Have something happen to Mussolini and spare D'Annunzio his suspicious accident prior to the March on Rome. You could have a strangely avant-garde regime, though I doubt D'Annunzio would have Mussolini's longevity.

I think the main reason it never got taken seriously in Britain is we have only a fraction of Norway's oil reserves but many times the population, spreading the fund a bit thin.

I had thought to suggest Canadian UN peacekeepers but maybe their own Protestant/Catholic issues in the 1970s might stop it. It's dumb, and (VERY) very unlikely but I have this image of Quebecois peacekeepers siding with the Catholic population etc... Wouldn't it be great if PM Benn walks into...

To be clear I think Benn pulling out of NI even with some 'framework' would probably be awful for civilians in the Province. He might get a boost in popularity on the mainland and get some rare praise from the Army. Northern Ireland isn't a former colony on the other side of the planet, the...

Heath having a second term would probably provide fodder in of itself. Labour in 1974 walked into a minefield on Northern Ireland. Heath's Sunningdale Agreement had received pretty stern opposition from hard-line unionists in December 1973 but nothing prepared Harold Wilson for the UWC strike...

I think Britain would need to be ready to pull out of Ireland (or at least soften to a 'hands off' approach) for Benn to win an election to begin with. The logistics of this would be massive as everyone expected a blood bath if the Army just pulled out. I imagine he would get the UN involved...

This question was asked in the Other Place too, this was my spitballing about how Benn can reach Number 10: Warning: Very Long

It depends partly on who is Foreign Secretary and how much true power they have. Peter Shore is a strong contender for the FO. He was a 'Commonwealth Man' and while anti-colonial was very positive towards British-descended settler communities. He may push quite hard for a real biracial solution...

Considered Charlton Heston for a TL where his civil rights work gets him blackballed as a pinko leading him into politics as a liberal Democrat and eventually President only to lurch right and fight his own party. Basically all of the left AND right’s dreams of Bobby and Scoop come true...