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John Freeman went properly off the rails after the Walker’s quixotic putsch attempt, the 1969 election was free but not really fair, and while Britain stayed out of the Third Great War the biological and chemical warfare unleashed by both sides devastated the continent and the global economy...

1937-1938: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government) † 1938-1941: Anthony Eden (Conservative leading National Government) † 1942-1944: John Anderson (National) 1944-1945: Herbert Morrison (Labour) 1944 (Minority): Leslie Hore-Belisha (National), Archibald Sinclair...

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I strongly suspect a Behind the Mask that made it onto Thriller probably would've sounded like Greg Phillinganes's cover more than anything else.

Here's a random pop culture musing around this cult-favourite sci-fi song from the late seventies from the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Quincy Jones, upon hearing the song on a visit to Japan, had Michael Jackson record a cover which was intended to be the B-side for Thriller. However, that...

There’s something very fun about a deliberately shoddily-written article like this. The final note of the writer “no longer answering his DMs” is pitch-perfect. This AH Britain seems a bit grim, too with the mentions of petrol rationing and seeming decades of austerity.

From The Illustrated, July 16, 2021 Reading Cusack’s Readings: The Prime Minister’s Book Club by Danielle Hayden We are all on Cusack Watch. Curious voters, puzzled voters, suspicious voters — they all want to know who and what exactly the 1,817 highly atypical delegates at the Radical...

Look forward to the full write up but just wanted to say, Janet Rehnquist is a 10/10 hipster choice

Chairperson of the Third International 8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai 9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos 10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan 11th World Congress (1975): Lin Biao 12th World Congress (1985): Joe Slovo 13th World Congress (1995): Jacques Chirac 14th...

@Gorrister liked this so I’m safe in the knowledge that I wasn’t talking total nonsense about Northern Ireland

By the NI Secretary.

The Alliance is still around, though relatively marginal. The anti power-sharing Unionist forces eventually coalesced into the New Unionists. The party of the "Dissident" Republicans has changed in form several times, but in the 2020 Assembly elections they ran under an electoral alliance named...

1963-1970: Terence O’Neil (Ulster Unionist) 1970-1974: Brian Faulkner (Ulster Unionist) 1974-1976: Robert Carr [Direct Rule] 1976-1980: Brian Faulkner (Ulster Unionist) Deputy 1976-1979: Gerry Fitt (New Democratic) Deputy 1979-1980: Austin Currie (New Democratic) 1980-1982: David Owen [Direct...

There are so many great ideas here - Kyle McLachan is such an absurdly perfect casting choice - but I think my favourite bit is how the American version of “An Unearthly Child” is “The Girl From Another World.” That’s exactly what they’d call it.

A Ministerial Broadcast, also known as a Prime Ministerial Broadcast or Ministerial Statement is a televised address to the British public, usually given by the incumbent Prime Minister or other senior Cabinet Minister in times of national crisis. The BBC and other public service broadcasters...

I think one of the biggest and most underdiscussed domestic butterflies of a "no FDR" scenario is there being no Black Cabinet - which is one of the big factors that set the Democrats on course to be the pro-civil rights party. That alone has enormous consequences for the next forty years of...

I understand this reference. Doing one of the great heroes of literature as a stub article (wonder which resident of Longbourne described him as “diffident” in their diaries) is inspired.

As I mentioned before, this excellent series was the direct inspiration for my series.

Edward Heath Harold Wilson James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher John Major Tony Blair Gordon Brown David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Rodney Starmer, best known by his stage name Rod Starmer, is a British flautist and jazz musician. Starmer is also a professor at...

Yeah, the Truss and Sunak (and May) ones were harder because unlike a lot of the earlier PMs they don’t really have hinterlands to speak of. Truss’s post-premiership has revealed her comfort zone to be that of a reactionary talking head, but I was genuinely struggling to think of what Sunak...