Brack, Duncan, and Iain Dale (eds.). Prime Minister Portillo… and other things that never happened. Politico's 2003.
Brack, Duncan, and Iain Dale (eds.). Prime Minister Portillo… and other things that never happened: A
Collection of Political Counterfactuals
Summary: Collection of 21 speculations, all but two about British politics,
including Richard S. Grayson "What if the Liberal Party had
emerged united from the First World War?", Helen Szamuely's
"What if Lenin's 'sealed' train had not reached Petrograd in
1917?", John Charmley's "What if Halifax had become Prime
Minister in 1940?", James Parry's "What if the Liberal
Party had broken through from the right?", Anne Perkins's
"What if Gaitskell, not Bevan, had diedin 1960?", Michael
McManus's "What if the Liberal Party had disappeared in the
1950s?", Simon Burns's "What if Lee Harvey Oswald had
missed?", John Barnes's "What if the Conservatives had won
in 1964?", Robert Taylor's "What if Harold Wilson and the
unions had agreed in Place of Strife?", Greg Rosen's "What
if Labour had won in 1970?", Mark Garnett's "What if Ted
Heath had gone to the country three weeks earlier in February 1974?",
Matthew Bailey and Philip Cowley's "What if Ted Heath had
stepped down in 1974?", Paul Richards's "What if Jim
Callaghan had gone to the country in October 1978?", Neil Stockley's
"What if Roy Jenkins had joined the Liberal Party in
1981?", Dianne Hayter's "What if Benn had beaten Healey in
1981?", Robert Waller's "What if the SDP-Liberal Alliance
had finished second in the 1983 general election?", David Mills's
"What if Arthur Scargill had balloted the NUM in 1984?",
Bernard Ingham's "What if Mrs Thatcher had had to resign over
Westland?", Mark Stuart's "What if John Smith had
lived?", Stuart Thomson's "What if Paddy Ashdown had joined
the Blair Cabinet in 1997?", and Iain Dale's "What if
Michael Portillo hadn't lost his seat in 1997?".
Published: Politico's 2003 (1842750690BUY).
Brack, Duncan (ed.). President Gore… and other things that never happened. Politico's 2006.
Brack, Duncan (ed.). President Gore… and other things that never happened: A Second
Collection of Political Counterfactuals
Summary: Collection of 19 speculations, with more about non-British events than
its predecessor volume. Includes Mark Pack's "What if the
Great Reform Bill had been defeated on its second reading in 1831?", Matt
Cole's "What if Sir Robert Peel had not gone out riding on 29
June 1850?", David Boyle's "What if Joseph Chamberlain had
married Beatrice Webb?", Tony Little's "What if the Home
Rule Bill had passed in 1886?", Robert Waller's "What if
the 1903 Gladstone-McDonald pact had never happened?", York Membery's
"What if Franz Ferdinand's assassin had missed in 1914?",
Jaime Reynolds's "What if Ramsay McDonald had lost the 1922
labour leadership election?", David Hughes's "What if the
liberals had formed the government in 1924?", Richard S. Grayson's
"What if Gustav Stresemann had lived beyond 1929?", Helen
Szamuely's "What if Czechoslovakia had fought in 1938?",
John Gittings's "What if Mao had met Roosevelt?", Peter
Riddell's "What if Britain had entered the common market in
1957?", Rab Houston's "What if the Scots had voted for
devolution in 1979?", Byron Criddle's "What if President
Mitterrand had imposed first-past-the-post instead of proportional
representation in 1986?", Duncan Brack's "What if the
alliance had not quarrelled publicly over defence in 1986?", R.J.
Briand's "What if John Major had become Chief Whip in
1987?", Simon Buckby and Jon Mendelson's "What if Yitzhak
Rabin had not been assassinated in 1995?", Mark Garnett's
"What if Michael Howard had become Conservative Party leader
in 1997?", and John Nichols's "What if Al Gore had won the
US Presidential election of November 2000?".
Published: Politico's 2006 (1842751727BUY).
Brack, Duncan, and Iain Dale (eds.). Prime Minister Boris… and other things that never happened
Summary: Collection of 21 speculations, all but three on British politics and
events. Includes David Boyle's "What if Lloyd George and
Keynes had gone to Russia in 1916?", Robert Waller's "What
if proportional representation had been introduced in 1918?", Jaime
Reynolds's "What if Lloyd George had done a deal with the
Tories in 1931?", Ted Morris's "What if Attlee had sent
Dalton to the Foreign Office and Bevin to the Exchequer in 1945?", Neil
Stockley's "What if Richard Nixon had become President of the
United States in 1961?", Mark Stuart's "What if Harold
Macmillan had not resigned in 1963?", Richard Briand's
"What if the UK had never joined the EEC?", Sam Cannicott's
"What if Rupert Murdoch had not bought The Times in 1981?",
Adrian Moss's "What if Mrs Thatcher had settled with the
miners in 1984?", Graham Kirby's "What if Margaret Thatcher
had won the 1990 Conservative leadership contest?", Christian Walker's
"What if the coup against Gorbachev in 1991 had
succeeded?", Peter Riddell's "What if Gordon Brown had
stood for the Labour leadership in 1994?", Tony McNulty's
"What if the United Kingdom had not gone to war in Iraq in
2003?", Iain Dale's "What if David Davis had been elected
leader of the Conservative Party in 2005?", Jane Griffiths's
"What if Tony Blair had remained as Prime Minister?",
Philip Cowley's "What if Gordon Brown had called an election
in 2007?", David Bean's "What if Hillary Clinton had
secured the Democratic nomination in 2008?", Matt Cole's
"What if Harris and Marris had won in 2010?", David Mills's
"What if Nick Clegg had opted for `confidence and supply'
rather than full coalition in 2010?", and Andy Mayer's
"What if Pope Benedict had been assassinated on his visit to
Britain in 2010?". as well as the non-allohistorical Mark Munro's "What
if Ken Livingstone wins the 2012 London mayoral election?"
Published: Biteback 2012 (1849541000BUY).
