Publisher's Synopsis
Enter a world of political counterfactuals, 26 expert examinations of things that never happened (or likely never will) - but easily could have if events had so conspired. In this book, a collection of distinguished commentators, including journalists, academics, former MPs and special advisers, consider how things might have turned out differently throughout a century of political history - from a permanent union between France and the UK in 1940, to Reagan and Thatcher being assassinated in 1981 and 1984 respectively, and, looking into the future, Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister in 2020. Scholarly analyses of possibilities and causalities take their place beside enthralling fictional accounts of alternate political histories - and all are guaranteed to entertain and make you think.
