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Something recognisably sinister about a Liberal government still undergoing a coup just for talking with the Socialists. Figures like Walston, Mallalieu, and Sindermann also make it feel different to your standard 60s disintegration ideas.

Osborne's problem is that he often thinks he's smarter than he is. Like Ed Balls, that brand of confrontationalism really turns people off unless your target is unpopular anyway, so he would do better against Brown from 2008 onwards, but he probably annoys a lot of people even on his own side...

Any war fought in this part of the world is going to be a logistical slog so I think the most favourable outcome for Portugal could achieve is a protectorate-type deal. I don't know enough about the colonial models the Portguese used to say if that's viable, however. It's possible the British...

That's a really interesting list @TimeEnough - a deeper way of looking at an alternate economic structure and how it affects power relations beyond the party leaders. Makes me think of a more successful Department of Economic Affairs so has that OTL precedent.

For the Anglosphere (and adjacently), Ernest Thurtle and Eamon de Valera could have stayed in U.S. politics. Thomas Macnamara and Bonar Law were Canadian born and probably rise as high in their native country as they did in the UK. The Egyptian premier Raghib Pasha was kidnapped from Greece and...

These are all well-reasoned points and a Japan friendlier with Britain might well focus more on the North Pacific, while Taiwan and Korea remain the limit for expansion, until they move in further. I can also see this being a longterm boost to the isolationist lobby in America with a less...

I wonder if any Japanese assimilation would eventually get some wider British backing as a broader anti-Russian, north Asia counterweight, if they assume Japan isn't too capable of threatening Canada (and would get swiftly hit down either way). Granted things didn't kick off until 1902 OTL but...

Davey or Khan? I'll take either over Brady. Details like the Liberals losing their West Country heartlands but still winning overall are good; plausible realignments happening even when the old yellow-blue duopoly continues.

Was thinking about this today, seeing how next week goes.

The Lib Dems regret recruiting the King in Yellow

Yeah Ireland's not in for a good time at all, I can see the British holding onto Northern Ireland and not touching the hornet's nest down south. And whoever emerges to replace the Dali, what that society looks like. It's a good idea for a vignette, how Ireland emerges from this.

Interesting, if I recall Maundy Gregory was used by other parties as well for selling honours, so I guess Lloyd George makes a scapegoat that no-one really wants to defend. With Lynch living longer do you see the Irish getting their new republican constitution to replace the 1921 Treaty?

I guess the Coalition falls over the Irish War in '21? Alexander (and Strachey as a blender of ideas) are decent picks for a different Labour movement than the generic Fabianism, etc. we got IOTL. Although Donald Maclean was really a stopgag for Asquith until he returned to the Commons, he...

That's an interesting look at the Cabinet. People like Eluned Morgan and Mary Creagh along with OTL Lib Dems and people with the family tradition. What's Ireland's status in this world?

Kamakura Shogunate: Minamoto no Yoritomo (Kamakura, 1185-89) Shimazu Tadahisa (Kamakura, 1189-1209) Hōjō Tokimasa as head of the Kumonjo, including Hojo Masako and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1189-99), equivalent to regent Minamoto no Yoriie (Kamakura, 1209-12) Minamoto no Sanetomo (Kamakura...

If you want to post those lists in your test thread here, you're welcome to.

These are all good questions and I'll take them in order. Actually looking at Cabinet appointments, Balfour was Foreign Secretary for the whole Conference while Curzon deputised in London. Balfour was easygoing but essentially winged it as a minister; Curzon was pedantic and overworking, the...

Bonar Law's health was very touch and go throughout this period until he died in 1923, and he only really stayed in post to support the Coalition (and Lloyd George), so I can see him retiring after the initial Treaty is signed. His probable successors would be Austen Chamberlain, or Curzon, who...

The Radical Afterlife of John Pardoe is quite splendid. One of those politicians who had so many more interests outside of politics.

Drat, yeah, I misread that last paragraph - seeing Selwyn Lloyd leading a Liberal revival, the Social Credit connection's an interesting one. Haven't seen Denis Ireland used before. And nice to see Francis Acland in there.