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The other thing I'd add to the intro is a (very) broad brush overview of 'eras' and wars, in the way that UK history seems to go (for example) Napoleon / Victorians / WWI / Abdication / WWII / Cold War, ignoring all the other things that happened

I don't know - an early enough expansion of baseball beyond the US, and it could easily become the pre-eminent international bat and ball game. Even now there are fewer than a dozen nations playing cricket at test level

OK - serious attempt. Different WW1 leads to earlier and longer US involvement and residual troops in Europe. The US form of Football gets considerable interest from Rugby players in the UK & France (initially) and gains a foothold, which leads to a US-led international federation in the 1920s...

The point is they can, and it does happen, in most games. I haven't sat and counted how many times.

And the restrictions on handling the ball - any player in a rugby match can make a legal pass to any other player on his team. 4/11 of the offence in American Football can usually go a whole season without touching the ball (Guards & Tackles) Defensive players can easily go whole games without...

The other thing that soccer had over gridiron was a 70 year headstart, and a ready stream of emigrants, sailors and the like to take the game 'overseas' from the UK. AC Milan were formed as a football and cricket club by two Englishmen. Juventus famously got their shirts from Notts County, for...

Thanks - and yes, there was further down the rabbit hole of local indy's I wasn't going to go, so you can assume any other group you can think of hasn't stood in the GE

Have you ever read a debate about a Federalised UK? Pretty much everyone in favour has a different solution in mind

It seemed to make sense in context :)

England (Part 2) - County Parties The final part of our review covers the ‘county’ parties, active in demanding devolution for a distinct area of the country, all smaller than the regionalist areas. Not every county or major city has a devolutionist grouping standing in the General Election, so...

I haven't done the county level parties yet...

MK won't be the only Cornish Nationalist group standing, for sure

Well I still need to do Cornish nationalism, which only covers a county, rather than a region, and once I had opened that particular door, it turns out there are quite a lot of possibilities (an OTL groups that make as much sense as anything else in this)

I have one more level of interestingness to go - county and city only parties

England (Part 1) English Nationalism/Regionalism is a strange beast, an odd collection of groups ranging from national organisations (with coverage so patchy it is similar to the early mobile networks), through regionalist groupings, down to the mass of county/locale parties. ‘True’...