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If US-Soviet relations had followed the same pattern as Anglo-French relations in the 18th century, then we can assume the US and the Soviets would have gone to outright war at least once, possibly twice, during the period of the OTL Cold War. In which case (assuming a similar sort of 18th...

Losing Ireland purely in-of-itself wouldn't really be an issue. As said, the main concern with Ireland from the time of the Yorkist pretenders onwards was of denying it as a launching post for invasion/power projection from the continent (Mostly by Spain, then later by France) rather than it...

That's kind. I wrote it a long time ago though and I wouldn't want to think it was the definitive tackling of this. I don't think Brown or Blair would last very long in government, though for different reasons.

Arr, not the Frisian Islands. We'll be debating for hours.

There's absolutely zero chance of this happening. Mourinho taking over I mean, him becoming assistant is very possible. Mourinho was absolutely right that Sir Bobby wouldn't have given it up, but more pointedly the position also wasn't, y'know in Bobby Robson's gift to hand to him. Given he...

The Old Pretender lived to be 77. If he'd came to the throne around the same time in his life that Louis did, he could have equalled or beaten Louis' reign, and in the ATL it might also still be standing as the record. Admittedly you'd need a vastly more politically competent James II for this...

There's not much to say about this other than it was very obviously ripped off from a Black Mirror episode and by that token I suppose is a salute to Black Mirror as it wasn't even an original fabrication. I don't think Black Mirror could have come along a decade earlier but if it had and we'd...

Theoretically I'm fine with disaster!Russia timelines and I think OTL might be the 'getting off lightly' timeline when you consider all that was happening. In the space of a few years in the nineties there were two failed coups, one shelling of the parliament building by the government, massive...

I'd also suggest Leah Ward Sears for the hypothetical 1992/1993 Marshall vacancy btw. Yes, she would have been on the Georgia Supreme Court for only a few months by the time they actively start considering names after November, (And only 37 as well) but the governor who appointed her, Zell...

Perot was one of those businessmen who think that they know everything and are good at everything because they've succeeded in their specific business field. He ran his campaign as an autocrat who didn't want to listen to any professional advice even from people he'd hired to give him advice and...

It doesn't necessarily have to be Kearse, it could be someone fairly obscure. Drew Days, as someone with Washington experience, is probably more likely a choice than Kearse, who in any case was distrusted by both sides of the aisle and never seriously considered IOTL precisely because she was...

No justice is going to choose to retire in an election year and Marshall probably partly retired when he did in part to precisely avoid that. In a world where, say, he cuts back on his chain smoking it is possible he feels he could make it to early 1993. He might in that event die sometime in...

This is OTL, at least if you're asking as per the original post, for Saddam to share roughly the same position the Iranian government has at times with tankies. You might want to google George Galloway's "I greet you... " speech. It just wasn't usually said as explicitly as that as Saddam...

Under Yeltsin, no absolutely not, as he spent nearly the entirety of his time in power trying to avoid being outflanked by the ultranationalist opposition domestically, which was the dominant domestic force from the 1993 elections onwards. It's why he took the stance he did on just about every...

I don't think there's any chance of Labour winning a bigger majority than 1966 in 1964. Given the sheer amount of unforced errors the Tories made (Home, Abolishing RPM etc) I think Labour was lucky to win the election at all.

Home would almost certainly have retired after agreement on the new leadership rules had Labour won a stable majority - IOTL the party agreed on them in February of the new year, it might happen sooner if Home is already on the way out. Divergence is possible, Heath won support due to his...

Well damn this is a shock. I interacted with him quite a lot on the old board, particularly post-1900 over at least a decade. Often disagreed with him, but he was always polite. A lot of the time he was also right. Pretty knowledgeable guy, much above average. Only interacted with him last...

I'm sorry, why are you assuming there would be any extension of the lease in the event it hadn't been renegotiated by the time of the fall of the USSR? The Russians were out of the former East Germany by 1994, no way are the Poles going to give the Russians more time than the Germans did to pack...

Discworld and religion is an interesting subject to discuss because Pratchett is a good writer, so it is possible to discuss it, but I don't think he's pro-religion. The article kind of implies that the 'proper' cosmic authority in Discworld are the good guys, while notably leaving out what is...

I don't think people have to rigidly stay in their lane but there are an awful lot of writers out there who are fuel for thinking otherwise. I suspect this offering by Turtledove is going to fall into that sort of territory.