The 20th century saw some idealists try to create a unified international language - Esperanto and Interlingue spring to mind. In the case of Esperanto, the language was actually semi-adopted by the League of Nations, which recommended that member states use it as an auxiliary language until...
Quite famously the European Union makes no reference to the Christian Religion in it's constitution and is seen by many as a secularising, liberal force. How can the the European Union be seen as a religious and Christian force, perhaps even reactionary?
I ask because opposition to the European...
Well part of the issue is that religion was a whole lot bigger than Charles I' "reforms". There were clear divides between the Puritan,established and Arminian factions from the Hampton Court conference in the early 1600s onwards. And if England's religious tensions are solved-what of Scotland's...
What does this mean for Empire? After all it was the who Pope decreed that the Americas would only be split between Iberia, France and England. Maybe a protestant England breaks the mould and other Lutheran states could have empires. Who knows maybe the triple alliance between France, Spain and...
Well the reformation pratically happened down these lines,pit in some Germanic vs Romance ethnic conflict and you've got the basis for a prolonged conflict. Pretty easy to have a conflict but I'm not sure how to make it "cold".
Does anyone think this could impact religion in the UK? Ireland has always made it a relevant,though peaceful(ish) issue in politics in the 20th century. Perhaps England might be as atheist as the American west is nowadays.
With a potentially weaker UK would we Singapore,Hong-Kong and Malta...
One of the things that has recently struck me is how unconservative(in the British sense)Thatcher was. What does this mean for conservatism in Britain then? Someone earlier mentioned perhaps more "High Toryism" but that kind of politics requires the type of politician that was perhaps dead by...
How's this even being debated? It's not possible post ww1 really. You could have a stronger commonwealth,but even that's a task with a pod post war. One thing that is interesting is if Britain kept smaller outposts,like France did,they held so many small islands and cities I guess kne could...
I don't want to make another thread,but could you get a Franco-British -German alliance with all 3 nations as powerful,if not more so than they were in otl 1914?
Yeah,I think the party would split for sure,I alluded to a new party being formed in the introduction,because the cabinet sure is right wing:p. (It's not meant to be realistic,but just made up of staunchest right wing libertarians,social conservatives and unionists- that's why I came up with the...
Ken Clarke? I always thought Urqhuart was more of a traditionalist/social conservative. But then he is Home Secretary and his cabinet would need balance.
Yeah,but tbh I couldn't be bothered looking up staunchly right wing or even moderate brexiteer Welsh,or Scottish MPs. Do you know any?(I'm not even sure there are some)
Maybe,(actually definetly ASB;))-showing the first Rees-Mogg cabinet,after his shock leadership election in the summer of 2017. This would be later known as the Brexit cabinet,although many in left wing circles just call it "the nightmare",disgusted as if it was deliberately made up of everybody...