![]() ![]() The thing about British Politics, of course, is that it is so ripe for points of divergence and the road not taken, which is something that people like Ed Thomas have been so successful at using (a letter implementing the Prince of Wales in a divorce case leading, fifty years later, to a Syndicalist Revolution after a failed Anglo-Russian invasion of the German Empire is an utter classic of this). I was, of course, the sort of nerdy teenager who devoured Yes Minister, The Thick of It, and watched various clips of the old Spitting Image on YouTube, which came alongside my first foray into counterfactual history as well. Of course, experience breeds knowledge, so I think that's inevitable that I'd be drawn (even somewhat against my will) to writing about the corridors of power. I have worked in and around Westminster since I was a student, either as a parliamentary researcher, at a think tank, and now as a civil servant. I think, however, that British politics has ended up being a draw for me because of proximity. I would rather like to set my mind to doing a properly researched timeline about a surviving Anglo-Japanese Alliance post-World War I, or a different route for the Industrial Revolution under the Tsars (perhaps the Decembrists are a little more successful?). ![]() ![]() My academic background (such as it is) is as an economic historian - with my primary areas of interest are Russia and the Far East. This is something that I've always been a bit annoyed with myself about. ![]()
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