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I've also seen pro writers who do amateur fiction as well say "I'm not going to read constructive criticism on this, I do it for fun, if I go down that road it just becomes more work and I'm not even getting paid for it" Which was a bit of a shock the first time but I get the logic of

There's the time part of Mrs Truman's piano crashed through the floor into the White House dining room below in June 1948.

I can see ways for Been to do better - the big one is that I'm not sure Foot backing Healey would carry as much weight as OTL (though you can certainly argue it didn't much anyway)

I would also like to thank @Redolegna again for his work

As a broader comment I think a Mirror Universe type idea can work well (though there are issues with the Discovery take as you mention) and DS9's biggest problem is insisting on it being the same Mirror Universe.

Wasn't Salvatore told to do that rather than it being a personal decision?

Yeah the Poland comparison is probably a good one

So having been listening to a podcast episode on Hungarian politics ahead of the upcoming election, this struck me as an interesting POD. It was fairly close vote-wise and it's pretty plausible Gyurscany doesn't get re-elected and Orban returns to power four years ahead of OTL. The podcast in...

It wasn't in government at the time (and arguably failed to enter government specifically because of this) but the Union of the Left broke up in Frabce in 1978 because of the Communists adopting a pro-nuke stance at odds with the agreement with the Socialists and the Left Radicals.

A more federal Britain (and somewhat less minorly, PR)

Ah, the version I'd heard was that they originally were going to show him sans helmet at some point and Urban insisted otherwise because of same

I think that was also specifically at the insistence of the actor, wasn't it?

Honestly I can't help but think "no 99 year lease" may mean an earlier end to British Hong Kong, as China's still got the incentive to push for it back and it's not even about trying to make sure the planned end date stays that way(/and is the end date for all of it).

I think @Heat mentioned Poland had an independent deterrent project in the 70s that almost came off according to some?

That's interesting, previously I'd heard that the surprise was it going to a second round - did people get overexcited in the two weeks in between maybe?