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  1. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    The Armageddon Factor is the last of the “lost stories” despite never being wiped. In an era of Doctor Who defined by calamity and mess, it was a plot worthy of Adams that the second episode of the series’ grand finale was scheduled for the same day as a coup. After a decade of fantasising [1]...

  2. [Vignette] Those Tired Old Cliches

    In the bar of Sydney’s FantastiCon, a man and woman – one white, one Asian, one Melbourne, one Brisbane, one in a SILHOUET T-shirt and so was the other one – studied, respectively, a press release and their drink. Union, depicting the events leading up to a North American intervention in the...

  3. DBWI: No "Big Bang" at Marvel Comics

    Here's a big one: the controversial "Big Bang" that Jim Shooter brought to early 1980s Marvel! An escalating number of superheroes replaced by death or retirement with all new, fit-for-the-eighties equivalents and new costumes all round, the first mega-revamp since Julius Schwartz in the late...

  4. Manchester Gorton: Bonfire of the Parties?

    Manchester Gorton has been described as crucial for Prime Minister Ed Miliband’s position. The long-time Labour seat is holding a by-election after the death of its MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman. Mr Miliband has overseen a shaky government since Labour formed a minority government in 2015. While...

  5. DBWI: Corbyn defeats Smith

    We know how knife-edge the election was in 1997: a few hundred votes here or there in the marginals, and IDS's Tories wouldn't have defeated Corbyn's Labour and brought the Tories back into power. Considering how, uh, dedicated both men were to their brand of politics and knowing what would be...

  6. Two Alternate Corbyns and the 2016 elections

    #1: BREAKING: CAMERON/CORBYN CONFLICT THREATENS TO SINK GOVERNMENT · 4 May 2016 · From the section UK Politics The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime...

  7. Elections 2016: a guide to voting across Airstrip One

    Elections are taking place across Airstrip One today for politmen and the Commissioner-General, and collectively make up the single biggest test of opinion of Oceania’s Turnbull government. How will the elections work? As in the rest of Oceania, voters will elect a politman for their union...

  8. DBWI: Thatcher wins in 1979

    Yeah, yeah, I know, been done. But: The no-confidence vote was 311-310 in Callaghan's favour. We're a coin toss away from a tie or the dissolution of the government. Even without that, October's a hung parliament and it would only take a few constituencies for a Conservative majority. For a...

  9. How Pacifism Doomed a Prime Minister (vigenette)

    (Knocked up in a bored moment two months ago, and figured AH might have some fun with it): How pacifism doomed a Prime Minister · 2 October 2015 ·...

  10. DBWI: Italy goes republican in 1946?

    Bit of an obvious one – the ’46 referendum was won by only a few thousand votes [1] – but what if Italy had voted to drop the monarchy? What would their presidencies be like? Would it actually be that different to the constitutional monarchy? And where would tabloids be without whacky Prince...

  11. DBWI: No Zyu2 on original Power Rangers?

    So as we know, MMPR is a huge steaming hit for Saban and he wants more & more of it - but the Japanese stock footage has run out, so he gives Toei a sack of cash to make new, US-exclusive Zyuranger footage. We get new monsters, new fights, and new versions of the Dinozords designed to link up...

  12. DBWI: Great War lasts past 1917?

    Wait, come back, this isn’t another “what if Germany won the Great Imperial War” thread! So, the facts . Two years of bloody stalemate in Europe, attempted invasions and guerrilla warfare in the Middle East, and colony swaps in Africa until the bunch of fives of the Brusilov Offensive...

  13. DBWI: Tory victory in 2010

    So a Conservative-led government has got back into power after 18 years in the wilderness - but they _did_ come close in 2010. So looking back at the last five years, what would have happened if they'd won in 2010? What would it be like with Liam Fox as Prime Minister instead of Miliband and the...

  14. Miranda Richardson is the Doctor! (TV ATL)

    “John [Nathan-Turner] wanted to resign from the show. Michael Grade stopped him. … Nobody wanted to do Doctor Who. The show was too much trouble." - Gary Downie, Doctor Who Magazine #338 "They [the BBC] were inimical to it, and they admit it now. I spoke to Michael Grade not too long ago...

  15. Volgans out! Fiddling with the Invasion! timeline

    the background - iconic British comic 2000 AD had a strip called Invasion!, about an invasion by the "Volgan Republic of Asia" (changed at the eleventh hour from the Soviet Union) invading Britain and most of western Europe in the near-future of 1999. Decades later in 2004, the sequel strip...
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