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  1. London and Paris: Skyscraper cities?

    Essentially this, New York is built on granite, London on clay, which makes throwing up a syscraper a massive effort in terms of foundations. Still, we seem to get more every year now.

  2. Edward VIII marriage question

    And the prize for naive comment of the week goes to... Upper and upper-middle class girls were expected to be virgins, or to appear as such, at marriage. They were then expected to breed. After that it was expected that they might, fairly discretely, play the field, as would their husbands...

  3. WI Britain after WW2 followed the French?

    All inhabitants of British colonies had full rights as a result of the Commonwealth Nationality Act 1948, which was soon taken advantage of by citizens of the West Indies. Britain had a black population from the 18th century, I don't know how familiar you are with the paintings of Wilkie and...

  4. British Reward for WWI Neutrality

    This ignores the economics, and slightly differently, the finances of the situation.All Allied borrowing was controlled through a single commission dominated by the British, without British credit the financial position will be incredibly weak. They are also of course the ones vulnerable to...

  5. British Reward for WWI Neutrality

    I don't see any particular reason France should overtake Britain in this timeline. Not that it couldn't necessarily. This whole concept is highly flawed - the fact remains that the British weren't convinced the Central Powers would beat France and Russia. This whole idea depends on a crystal...

  6. Volkssturm used in 1942

    A relatively small proportion of the workforce of even a militarised economy works actually making weapons, a lot more makes subcomponents and prepares the raw materials and the supporting infrastructure. The truth is that the Nazis did feed in foreign labour, with varying degrees of success...

  7. Volkssturm used in 1942

    It's not just daft, it's not really possible, there is no way to transport or supply them at distance, all they could do is turn-up and sit somewhere, if they ever got anywhere in the first place. There's something of a limit to how much manouvreing a 45 can do on his own two feet, for the...

  8. Gordon Brown calls a snap General Election in 2007 - A Timeline

    The man who has spent a year warning of grim austerity - he has a funny way of telling people what they want to hear. Thande's comment above seems to have been the opposite reason for criticism to yours. The austerity message was a gamble: sometimes there are points for honesty, sometimes you...

  9. Gordon Brown calls a snap General Election in 2007 - A Timeline

    What if Osborne still made his inheritance tax announcement and that still saw a poll boost? Osborne would then likely be credited with improving the result. He strikes me as one of the most consistently underestimated politicians around at the moment. He has pulled things out of the hat...

  10. Worst general of the 20th century

    And they did get wasted by their fellow Americans quite a bit at first. The Briitsh took far more prisoners and far more ground. Allied wars are allied wars but this isn't just jingoism, it's inaccurate.

  11. AHC: Make South America... Less South American

    This isn't quite accurate. The commons was a plebeian body until the Tudor reforms, when it was taken over by the landed gentry with the introduction of the 40s leasehold suffrage rule. This however extended to a range of people, perhaps a fifth or more of adult males, which meant far more...

  12. Prince Harry captured by Taliban

    Technically it is probably sedition.

  13. What If: Royal Navy keeps some of the carriers in th 70-es

    The problem with this is that both carriers were wartime emergency builds and not in great shapre. Ark Royal was, ironically in worse shape, and Eagle could have gone on longer as you suggest. But I am not sure Ark could have been kept going as long as it did without cannibalising Eagle. I...

  14. The Handmaid's Tale

    Not exactly Alternate History but in the right space. Anyone read it. Having just finished it I must say I really liked it, subtle and well-written. Particularly amused by the postscript at the end moving to the academic seminar and "all those signed up to the fishing trip," talk about...

  15. Eire a world power?... Why the hell not?

    I think a quick search of the internet will reveal that this largely isn't true Have you ever met an Irish person?

  16. Was a larger UK rearmament program in the 1930s possible?

    I don't know, maybe it was the words of their leader: I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war and say to the world "do your worst.

  17. fantasies of being the Fuhrer

    It wasn't his order.

  18. Was a larger UK rearmament program in the 1930s possible?

    I think that's kind of the epitome of getting carried away. Rearmament did start on 1935 anyway. Just because it was more intensive it woulds till take some years for weapons to be built, but there could be a serious upgrading of capability by the time of the Czech crisis. The Munich...

  19. Was a larger UK rearmament program in the 1930s possible?

    The main issue here is the imports requirement, which imposes constant breaks on rearmament. Heavy imports put pressure on the pound, driving up the costs of future rearmament or interest rates. Keysianism describes for a closed system, which Britain certainly wasn't, so is only very...

  20. fantasies of being the Fuhrer

    At least you are more honest about it than most of the "Nazi-wankers." As in to do a "wank", to to be a...
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