Since the Lord Protector has been mentioned several times, it worth noting that according to
Sixth World Almanac, the Queen dissolved the Office of the Lord Protector in July 2071. Lord Marchment (who has been the holding the Lord Protector position for as long as it existed, since 2025 -think Edgar J. Hoover with more powers and a cup of tea-) retired from public life. Then,
6WA gives no clue about what UK would be like after this event. Nothing significant at least until November 10, 2072 it seems (since that's the last date featuring in
6WA).
I fear that UK will become "random Western country under corporate influence" with some typical Awakened phenomenon for local flavor (France went the same way in
SOX and
6WA). I would prefer something like riots and terrorism forcing the good and nice Prime Minister to maintain most of the security services old practices. But I'm not sure whoever wrote that part wanted things to return to the way they were before.
QUOTE (hermit @ May 10 2011, 12:41 AM)

Is it true CGL has chosen to defile the setting in Spy Games?
According to the promotional material CGL released,
Spy Games is going to cover Denver, and
Conspiracy Theories is going to cover London.
QUOTE (Rasumichin @ May 13 2011, 04:00 PM)

The whole IRA crew had become more or less the government in the Tir after they got taken over by an immortal elf (well, that was before the elfs took over completely) and there's no Real IRA in SR AFAIR.
The terrorist groups that are still active are mostly Protestant (New Ulster Revolutionary Movement and Ulster Liberation Front).
That's a bit more complicated.
First you got to back back in time, in 1993 and 1994. On March 20, 1993, the IRA bombing in Warrington kills two children, the day before Mother's Day. From then on, the Provisional IRA ceases to be the avengers of the 1972 Bloody Sunday 13 victims. For the first time, an US Administration moves on the Northern Ireland issue, through the US Irish community (a reckoned force in the Democrat East Coast strongholds). In August 1994, Bill Clinton has the IRA signing a cease fire, starting a political process. Music lovers would also add the release of Cranberries' song
Zombie in late 1994, written after the Warrington bombing, which maybe had an impact on the public opinions. In spite of the IRA breaking the cease fire between february 1996 and june 1997, and the 29 killed by Real IRA splitters in 1998, the conflict is Northern Ireland is going toward an end from that point.
But Sargeant and Gascoigne wrote
London Sourcebook and
Tir na nOg before 1994. None of those events happened in SR history. The conflict went on. As soon as 2011, the Provisional IRA started using magic (actually several months before the official date for Awakening on December 24 according to the books). The Tories ruled UK continuously until 2011. When the Labour finally won, the people wanted them to end the war, whatever the price. In 2014, the Act of Dissolution and the Treaty of Galway reunite Ireland. The Dublin government is left alone to negotiate with the Provisional IRA.
Liam O'Connor, the leader of Londonderry IRA steps into the light to take part in the negotiations. He then publicly reveals he is a spike baby, as several other fellow members of his cell. They are elves born before 2011. O'Connor himself is allegedly born on December 11th, 1979. These revelations somehow caused a schism within IRA.
O'Connor followers formed the Tir Republican Corps, a more or less official counterinsurgency group to fight against the remaining republican and protestant groups. However, they never succeeded in completely destroying them. The Official IRA was still around by 2063, along with the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army), the UUPP (United Ulster Protestant Party), the URF (Ulster Revolutionary Force) and the NURM (New Ulster Resistance Movement). The banning of the Catholic Church, the growing number of elves within the government and administration, and the advent of elven culture and nationalism that followed the proclamation of Tir na nOg, radicalized these groups even more, if necessary.
Also, Great Dragon Rhonabwy has been supporting any group fighting against the elven powers.